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Shadowplay Thread #4

Production begins: April 2019

Taylor Kitsch & Michael C. Hall Lead Cast Of ‘Shadowplay’ Drama Series From Tandem & Bron EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Kitsch (Waco, True Detective) and Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Safe) are set to lead the cast of Shadowplay, a gritty dramatic thriller series from The Bridge co-creator Måns Mårlind, Studiocanal’s Tandem Productions and Bron Studios in co-production with ZDF. Nina Hoss (Phoenix, A Most Wanted Man), Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others, Homeland), Tuppence Middleton (Sense8, War and Peace), Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus) and Mala Emde (Brecht, Charité) round out the cast of the series’ first chapter. Mårlind has conceived Shadowplay as a 16-episode series, told in two chapters. The initial eight-episode shoot will begin April 29 in Prague, and an additional eight episodes are planned for filming in 2020. Created and written by Mårlin, Shadowplay is a character-driven thriller set in Berlin. It centers on the story of Max McLaughlin (Kitsch), an American cop who arrives in the city in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war. Max’s goal is to take down “Engelmacher” Gladow (Koch), the Capone of post-war Berlin. At the same time, Max undertakes a secret crusade to find his missing brother Moritz (Marshall-Green), who is killing ex-Nazis in hiding. However, Max is completely unaware that he is being used as a pawn in what is the very beginning of the Cold War. Kitsch will play Max, Hall is Tom Franklin, Hoss portrays Elsie, Koch will play Engelmacher, Middleton portrays Claire, Marshall-Green is Moritz and Emde is Karin. Mårlind executive produces and will direct all episodes alongside his directing partner, Björn Stein (Underworld Awakening, Midnight Sun). Rola Bauer (Take Two, The Pillars of the Earth), Jonas Bauer (Spotless, The Company), Tim Halkin (World Without End, Labyrinth), Jim Gillespie (World Without End, I Know What You Did Last Summer), and Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert, Steven Thibault and David Davoli (The Mule, Joker, Tully, Leave No Trace) also executive produce. Wolfgang Feindt (The Killing, The Same Sky) and Frank Seyberth (Trapped, The Bridge) executive produce for ZDF. The first chapter of this one-hour returning series will be produced by Rick McCallum (Britannia, A United Kingdom), alongside Line Producer Veronika Lencova (Britannia, Crossing Lines), Director of Photography Erik Sohlström (Midnight Sun) and Production Designer Niels Sejer (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Tandem Productions and Bron Studios are producing the series in co-production with ZDF. Shadowplay is co-financed by Creative Wealth Media along with a line-up of major international networks, including Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) for its premium streaming service Viaplay (Nordic region), Canal+ (France), Canal+ Poland and NPO (Holland). The series will be distributed worldwide by Studiocanal TV. Tandem Productions and Kitsch are repped by CAA; Marshall-Green is repped by CAA and 3 Arts; Hall is repped by UTA, Authentic Talent & Literary Management and Hamilton Hodell; Mårlind is repped by Paradigm; Hoss is repped by Players Agentur Management; Middleton is repped by Conway van Gelder Grant; Emde is repped by Agentur Schwartz and Koch is repped by Agentur Schlag. S

https://deadline.com/2019/04/taylor-...on-1202592309/

CAST

Taylor Kitsch - Max McLaughlin
Michael C. Hall - Tom Franklin
Nina Hoss - Elise
Sebastian Koch - Engelmacher
Tuppence Middleton - Claire
Logan Marshall-Green - Moritz
Mala Emde - Karin

[worthyoflove]

From the previous thread:

Mans Marlind teases we will see something Shadowplay related soon.

Originally Posted by DaisyGirl14 (View Post) I have no idea if this means anything for this particular series but I read an interesting statistic today in Variety magazine. Two-thirds of Netflix's 193 million subscribers do not live in the United States. That seems like a lot of foreign subscribers (granted that includes Canada too). Anyway, for a series that takes place in Europe, was filmed in Europe by a European director and film company, Netflix might be where it winds up... Who knows really - I just thought that statistic was very telling about how the streaming wars now seem to rule the way films/tv are made and accessed.

Originally Posted by worthyoflove (View Post) So where it’s airing in some of the Euro markets is ZDF, who just happens to be Netflix’s main competition. I have no idea if that has any bearing where it will end up here since it’s a different market and Studiocanal is handling international sales.

[Kitschgreen]

LGM just posted that he’s taking a month off of IG. I wonder if he would do that knowing a trailer is coming soon? Seems like they would want to use that for some level of promo, but who knows.

[worthyoflove]

I noticed that. But I don't follow him closely enough to know if he promotes projects he's in actively like trailers and such? Who knows, maybe he intends to take a break but will just post it if it is released.

It seems like the cast doesn't seem to have a ton of detail on what's going on with the release as of now. Or Nina didn't a few weeks back.

[SouthernSweetieTX]

Hopefully, Taylor will perk back up and start posting when Shadowplay starts promoting.

[worthyoflove]

I think he for sure will!

Here's an old fan encounter from last summer when he was in Prague. Clearly when he was still trying to cover his "Max" hair, which I like!

[worthyoflove]

On set, I think when they were in "Brooklyn", which would have been the last day of filming.

[SouthernSweetieTX]

I think he looks incredibly tired in both of these pictures.

[worthyoflove]

According to Kelsey, who was his makeup artist, "hopefully later this year." Doesn't sound super promising...but, also, she stole that combo of pictures from my account from back in January. I can always tell.

Taylor Kitsch as Max McLaughlin in Shadowplay - coming hopefully later this year. I’m excited. This’ll be a good’un. Hair and Makeup by me Design by DebWatson

[elherts]

Are you able to tell how much traffic you get there?

[worthyoflove]

On the account? I can on tumblr. If I changed the instagram account to a business account I can follow my statistics. I've played with the idea but I think I have to reach 10,000 followers to be able to have some of the features I'd want, like being able to post a link in a story, etc. I just reached 8,000 and I vividly remember showing a few of my friends the account for the first time last summer and they were my 6,000th and 6,001 follower. So gained 2,000 followers in the last year. Here's to 2,000 more in the next.

Kitschgreen (sorry I don't know your name), check your direct messages. I sent you one a few days ago.

[Kitschgreen]

Just checked the message and couldn’t find the reply button at all. Weird. Yes I would love to see and you have my word that I won’t!

[worthyoflove]

Just messaged it over. Feel free to talk about it here on the board. Everyone who is active on this forum has pretty much seen it.

[Kitschgreen]

Okay wow. It looks so crisp. Kitsch looks good as always, only concern for me is the New York accent. LGM looks incredible, he plays high intensity so well. Michael c hall and the love triangle with kitsch could be interesting. Can we hurry up and just get this series out NOW.

[worthyoflove]

He's usually pretty good with accents, but I was worried after his 21 Bridges Brooklyn accent sounded more Boston. We'll see how it turns out but I'm optimistic.

I like the brother v. brother thing they're setting up and the love triangle angle with Michael C. Hall, Taylor and Tuppence.