‘African Queens: Cleopatra’ Director Tina Gharavi Options Icelandic Bestseller & Tees Up International Crime Thriller Series ‘The Fox’
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: BAFTA and Sundance-nominated Tina Gharavi has optioned Icelandic bestseller ‘Refurinn’ and is adapting it as crime thriller that will be a UK-Iceland co-production.
Gharavi helmed Jada Pinkett Smith’s four-part Netflix docudrama African Queens: Cleopatra and is currently directing Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day.
She will be showrunner on the series, has penned a pilot, and plans to produce and direct. The Fox is based on Sólveig Pálsdóttir’s Refurinn, one of her Ice & Crime series thrillers, which feature detective Guðgeir Fransson.
Nordic noir fan Gharavi bought the rights directly from the Pálsdóttir and spent time researching the book’s characters with the author.
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