‘The X-Files’ Writer Frank Spotnitz Returns to Sci-Fi With Newen Connect’s ‘We Come in Peace’: ‘It’s Compelling, Thought-Provoking and Deeply Human’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAnnika Pham “The X-Files” executive producer and writer Frank Spotnitz and his London-based Big Light Productions have boarded event Swedish sci-fi “We Come in Peace” as a co-producer, Variety has learned in exclusivity on the eve of London TV Screenings.
Spotnitz serves as writing supervisor as well as executive producer, alongside Big Light’s Adrian Banyard. The six-part TV show which just wrapped production in Sweden is repped internationally by Newen Connect, which will unveil clips and creative materials to global buyers at a presentation in London Feb.
25, to be attended by Spotnitz and the main Swedish producer Piodor Gustafsson (“Border,” “Lamb”) of Black Spark Film & TV.
The Swedish and US executives go way back. As former drama buyer and commissioner for Swedish pubcaster SVT, Gustafsson acquired in 2012 the BBC series “Hunted” created and penned by Spotnitz, and the latter has taught for the last 12 years at the Berlin-based screenwriting training course Serial Eyes which Gustafsson helped to found.
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