CBS Studios Inks International First-Look Deal With Stampede Ventures, Adapting Ragnar Jónasson’s ‘The Darkness’
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deadline.comPeter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: CBS Studios has struck a global first-look deal with Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures International and has set its first project – an adaptation of Ragnar Jónasson’s best-selling Nordic noir book The Darkness.The two companies will work together to source, acquire and develop premium scripted content for the international market that is creatively anchored outside the United States.The first project is a series adaptation of Jónasson’s The Darkness, from his Hulda series of crime novels.
Rising writer Andrea Janakas, who wrote Amanda Seyfried-fronted short film Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves, is attached to write The eight-part series is set in Reykjavik, Iceland, among the isolated fjords.
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