Leading independent production and distribution company APC, Danish production company Sweet Chili Entertainment and French production company Make It Happen Studio have secured a far-reaching deal with Orange Studio for their drama series Unpunished.
Orange Studio’s TV series department is a newly created entity from French telco Orange with the aim to co-develop and co-produce high-end content. The studio is boarding Unpunished. as a co-producer and primary commissioner as the show will air on Orange’s Pay TV service OCS in France.
Unpunished. is an ambitious new 8x 60’ television drama for a global audience on the topical phenomena of Artificial Intelligence and cyber warfare. It is a co-development between Nordic independent company Sweet Chili Entertainment, French independent Make it Happen Studio, and APC, which will also exploit global distribution rights in partnership with Orange Studio. The co-producers are already engaged in several advanced conversations with other potential financers in Europe and in the US with a view to complete financing and start production over the summer.
Filming primarily in the English language, Unpunished.is a grounded sci-fi thriller set across Europe that follows the evolution of an artificial intelligence (A.I.), from a man-made virus into an ever-evolving, ever-learning, ever-growing, Super Intelligence with the capacity to take away humanity’s control of its own destiny.
When prodigious start-up CEO David Dimauro finds out that his younger sister’s suicide was a direct result of lies spread on social media, he decides to launch a revolutionary new virus. And he disappears without a trace. The virus is designed to quietly spread, avoid detection and expose every secret it can find on any major social network. Millions of secrets are leaked causing irreversible damage to first private citizens and then corporations and governments. Frida Raila, head of cyber security at the EU Defence Ministry, is put on the case with an aim to stop the virus at all costs.
Álex García López, Director of Utopia, Misfits, Daredevil and currently directing The Witcher for Netflix, is attached as showrunner. Coline Abert (The Returned, The Bureau) is attached as the main writer. The series will start production in November this year.
