Miso Film Pushes Creative Boundaries With HBO Max’s ‘Lust,’ Netflix’s ‘A Marriage,’ ‘Your Land’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNordic production powerhouse Miso Film, which looks to make a splash at the Berlinale Series with its daring HBO Max show “Lust,” is developing high-end international dramas with Scandinavian creatives such as Pilou Asbæk (“Borgen”), Ole Bornedal (“Nightwatch”) and Fenar Ahmad (“Darkland”).

The company is part of Fremantle.Ahead of the Berlinale, Miso founders Peter Allen and Jonas Bose discussed with Variety their ambition to find new voices and original ways to tell stories.The banner, which just started shooting the third season of “Those Who Kill” and is about to begin filming Season 3 of “Face to Face” with Lars Mikkelsen, recently shot Norwegian sci-fi comedy “Blasted,” for Netflix. “Streamers have opened up new possibilities for genre,” said Allen. “‘Blasted’ is now in post and is a mix of science fiction and comedy with a lot of CGI,” added Allen.

He and Bose said working with streaming series has also allowed them to explore new grounds. “Streamers can be braver with niche series because they have global audiences so they’re not limited to a single market like broadcasters are,” said Allen.The company’s development roster includes a crime series written by “Dicte” co-screenwriter Christian Gamst for Netflix; as well as Ole Bornedal’s TV series “Your Land”, a dystopian crime show set in 2034. “Your Land” takes place in a world where refugees coming from Africa to Europe are being contained in a sub-society called Euroland.

Currently at script stage, the series will follow a detective who is sent to Euroland to investigate crimes.“In this series, we deal with the refugee situation and we look at we act as human beings,” said Bose, who cited “Blade Runner” and “Mad Max” as.