It’s the TV Sensation of the summer: “The boat” is to be continued as a series. Now, the first Details were known. The Austrian actor Robert stadlober to be part of the new Crew.
Rotation start until the end of August, but the waves, which suggests “The boat” already, are high. In 1981, the war film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen in the film history. Now, the story as a TV to be told series. At the Filmfest Munich, the Details were now known. Among the New on Board is the Austrian actor Robert Stadlober, Franz Dinda, Rick Okon, and Lizzy Caplan. It is shot in France, Malta, Munich, Germany, and the Czech Republic – in Prague’s film studios, the submarine is built for the interior shots-boat extra.
The eight one-hour follow not to play but only there. “To see eight hours of sweaty men in a sheet metal coffin, would be unbearable,” said Andreas Prochaska, the will to succeed as a Director, Wolfgang Petersen. Known, the Austrian Director was in 2013, mainly due to his Western “The dark valley”.
The Original: “das Boot” in 1981, with captain Prochnow
New U-boat stands out in the lake
In the process, Prochaska plans no violence strotzdene Action series. “We must not forget the whole point of fascination is that the boat has been a killing machine of the Nazis,” he said. So should this time be also addressed to the French resistance against the German occupiers. “The boat”-Original is based on a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, and was made into a movie with Jürgen Prochnow, Uwe ochsenknecht, and Otto Sander. As the crew of a German U-boat they were fighting in 1941 during the Second world war in the Atlantic – and finally came almost all in an air RAID on the French port of La Rochelle died.
It is precisely here that the series should be used. During the resistance against the German occupiers grows, stings a young crew of a new boat in the lake. 25 million euros to the cost of eight episodes, produced by Bavaria Film, Sky Deutschland and Sonar Entertainment. To see you will be then in the autumn of 2018 – about the Pay-TV channel Sky in Germany, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
nw/rey (dpa)