‘Constellation’: Euro Team Behind Apple TV+’s Space Drama Talk Almost Casting Jeff Bridges, Zero Gravity Shooting & $270,000 Space Suits — Seriencamp
deadline.comThe team behind Apple TV+‘s big-budget European drama Constellation took to the stage in Cologne this week to talk developing the psychological sci-fi drama, technical challenges of shooting zero gravity, almost casting Jeff Bridges and why they spent nearly $550,000 on space suits.
You can watch a video of the session at the bottom. During a production masterclass session at Seriencamp, series producer Daniel Hetzer and line producer Jakob Neuhausser from Constellation co-producer Turbine Studios revealed the budget for the series sat around €100M ($110M), with Apple providing around 70% and a €10M grant coming from the state-run German Motion Picture Fund.
Turbine, which has bases in the UK and Germany, had initially joined forces with France’s Haut et Court TV to create the project.
Together they attached writer and show creator Peter Harness and then sold a global license to the project to Apple, before attracting around €30M in soft money from Germany, the UK, France, Finland and Morocco. “That reserved us a seat at the table as a financing partner,” said Hetzer.
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