Erik Barmack, ‘Blood Red Sky’ Producer Benjamin Munz Team for High-Speed German Action Film ‘The Chase’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn one of the biggest swings in Europe’s market, Erik Barmack, the former Netflix VP of international originals, is teaming with Benjamin Munz, producer of “Blood Red Sky,” Netflix’s most-watched non-English movie of all time, on a tentpole high-speed German action film, “The Chase.”Billed by Barmack as “‘The Fast and the Furious’ meets ‘Money Heist’” – which he helped bring to Netflix – “The Chase” marks the first movie out of the gate at Munz’s Berlin-based new label, Fright Zone, the first production company in Germany that will focus exclusively on developing and producing fantasy, action, horror and science fiction films as well as TV shows in and from Germany.

Overseen by founder and CEO Munz, Fright Zone will produce with Barmack, who is now working out of his own L.A. label, Wild Sheep Content, a company that he started with The Mediapro Studio, headed by Laura Fernández Espeso.

Crucially, movie will shoot in German, as “Blood Red Sky.” “Films can be ambitious without feeling Hollywood,” said Barmack.“The Chase” is created by Germany’s Korbinian Hamberger, whose writing credits take in episodes of iconic ZDF crime franchise “Soko” and 2018’s “The Travels of Young Marco Polo,” the latter for German channel Kika, as well as an episode of 2021’s Netflix series, “Kitz.”Now in development, “The Chase” turns on Serena Hell, 32, who uses the distraction of Munich’s rowdy Octoberfest to steal a billionaire’s car collection from his high-tech garage.

But she’s after a far bigger prize. To get it, she has to outwit the billionaire’s henchmen, the cops, sometimes her own motley crew of robbers and the Albanian mafia.“The Chase” looks set to unfold against the background of.