Nadcon Film, South Africa’s Gambit Films Team Up on ‘Revenge Trilogy’ Crime Series (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Christopher Vourlias Peter Nadermann’s Nadcon Film and South African genre specialists Gambit Films (“Indemnity”) are teaming up to adapt a trilogy of best-selling crime thrillers, Variety can reveal.The “Revenge Trilogy” is based on the Cape Town-set novels from South African author Mike Nicol.

The books will be adapted for screen by Gambit’s Daryne Joshua and will be produced by Gambit Films and Nadcon Film in cooperation with ZDF Enterprises, which co-owns Nadcon.The story begins with ex-gun-runners Mace Bishop and Pylon Buso, who made an illicit fortune while part of the struggle against Apartheid but are now at the helm of a private security company, trying to settle into a comfortable life in Cape Town.

With their ill-gotten riches stuck in the Cayman Islands, however, the partners find their dreams of a worry-free future in jeopardy.

Instead, they’re plunged into Cape Town’s violent underworld, where a powerful adversary – the crime-fighting super-lawyer Sheemina February – will force them to confront long-forgotten demons through a brilliantly dark plan of revenge.A pioneer of the Nordic Noir genre, Nadermann – whose credits include ground-breaking Scandi series “The Killing” and “The Bridge,” as well as Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” film trilogy – said he was instantly drawn to the compelling trio of novels.“I am always searching for exciting crime literature, and when I came across Mike Nicol’s ‘Revenge Trilogy,’ with its dramatically sharpened story and his breathtaking style full of action and big images, I immediately thought this would be wonderful material for a series adaptation,” said Nadermann, who optioned the three books.“As I prefer to produce our adaptations where the stories actually happen, I was.