Jonas Jonasson Lifts The Lid On Disney+ Original ‘Whiskey On The Rocks’; Ronald Reagan & Leonid Brezhnev Face Off In Swedish Cold-War Submarine Satire
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: When Whiskey-class Soviet submarine U137 ran aground in Sweden in 1981 it sparked a diplomatic fracas that threatened to ignite a global conflict.
With nukes possibly in play, it was no laughing matter. The team behind Whiskey on the Rocks, a satirical take on the Cold War sub drama, beg to differ. “Whiskey on the Rocks jokes about something as serious as when we stood on the threshold of a third world war, and it’s absolutely the right thing to do because the world needs more humor and self-awareness, not less,” Jonas Jonasson, the Swedish author of ‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’, says, speaking exclusively to Deadline.
He wrote an original story, from which Whiskey on the Rocks has been forged. The ensuing six-part series dropped on SVT over the festive period, generating big numbers for the Swedish pubcaster.
It is also the first Nordic original for Disney+ and launches on the streamer in the EMEA region (ex-MENA and Turkey) on January 22.
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