Marisa Miller

The producers behind HBO's "Game of Thrones" and "Into The Storm" have inked a deal for of Derek B. Miller’s "Norwegian By Night."read more    

Refresh for latest… There’s a Scandinavian flavor to Cannes Briefs this morning. Zentropa and Nordisk Film are to produce the adaptation of the 1945 Swedish bestseller The Long Ships with director and writer under negoatiations. Author Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s adventure novel is set in the 10th century and tells the story of Red Orm, a Viking who embarks on a journey that ends up changing the course of history. Zentropa CEO Peter Aalbaek Jensen (Nymphomaniac) is producing with Sisse Graum J?rgensen (The Hunt, The Salvation). Exec producer is Lone Korslund (Headhunters, Kon-Tiki). Rainmark Films’ Tracey Scoffield and Frank Doelger, in partnership with Germany’s Beta, have acquired film rights to Derek B. Miller’s novel Norwegian By Night. The company is developing the project from the American-born writer with a director soon to be attached. The story follows an 82-year-old widower and ex-Marine who lives in Oslo with his granddaughter and her Norwegian husband. When he witnesses the murder of a woman in his apartment complex, he rescues her son and races across the Norwegian wilderness, chased by the murderers and the police. The deal was struck with Miller’s literary agency Janklow & Nesbit. Rainmark produced the Cannes official selection title Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, which screens Wednesday, and Doelger is exec producer of Game Of Thrones.