David Troncoso, Patrick Nebout, Leonine’s Odeon Fiction, Yle Unite for Cold War Satire ‘Learning to Fly’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Annika Pham After the submarine-set “Whiskey on the Rocks,” available on Disney + since Jan. 22 outside Sweden, French-Swedish producer Patrick Nebout of Dramanation is turning to the skies, with another Cold War satire spy thriller: the majority English-speaking “Learning to Fly,” Variety has learned in exclusivity.

The flagship European series is based on a concept by Nebout who worked on and took an executive producer credit for early development of the concept for The Mediapro Studio’s “The Head,” which was based on an original idea by David Troncoso Conlin.

It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.

The six-part mini-series, in early development, is produced by Germany’s Odeon Fiction, in co-production with Nebout’s Dramanation, Troncoso Conlin’s Studio60 and Finnish broadcaster Yle.