Studiocanal’s SAM Productions Sets Shoot Date for Danish Royal Drama ‘By the Grace of God,’ Preps ‘Britta’ From ‘Borgen’s’ Adam Price (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAnnika Pham Studiocanal‘s Scandi powerhouse SAM Productions, co-founded by star writers Adam Price (“Borgen,” “Ride Upon the Storm”), Søren Sveistrup (“The Killing,” “The Chestnut Man”) and producer Meta Louise Føldager Sørensen, is gearing up for an expansive slate of event series most-likely to shake the Kingdom of Denmark and take global viewers by storm. “We’re working on our biggest slate ever,” said Sørensen, credited for more than 60 films and series, including the Oscar-nominated “A Royal Affair,” “The Wife,” starring Glenn Close, and Lars von Trier’s Cannes winner “Melancholia.” Toplining SAM’s TV projects is “By the Grace of God,” Denmark’s own version of “The Crown” based on the life of Queen Margrethe II from her birth in 1940 until her abdication earlier this year.
Filming of the blockbuster series, ordered by Danish commercial pubcaster TV2, is due to start in August 2025. Sara Namer (“The Orchestra,” “In Your Arms”) serves as producer.
Based on an original idea by Sveistrup, the biggest-ever fiction drama about the Danish ruling monarchs, will turn on their lives from the perspectives of both royal members and court royal employees, laced with political intrigue.
But most of all, it will be a story about “a girl and her family,” runs a TV2 statement. Thor Bjørn Krebs, creator and writer of SAM’s “Pros and Cons” (repped internationally by Studiocanal), serves as head writer. “To tell the story of a royal family is to tell the story of a country,” said Sørensen.
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