EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s city fantasy drama The Grimm Actuality is not going to see the sunshine of day. We’ve discovered that the collection from Darkish producer Wiedemann & Berg and The Gryphon co-producer Canine Haus Movies has been quietly shelved.
The Grimm Actuality first went into improvement at Netflix’s German base after which into manufacturing in late 2022. We perceive filming had accomplished, however it is not going to transfer additional forwards at Netflix.
Plot particulars on the present weren’t revealed, however it was assumed to be primarily based on the Brothers Grimm folklore tales of the 18th and nineteenth centuries. The collection was billed a “fairy story city fantasy thriller,” in response to What’s on Netflix, which initially broke the information of the present.
Present creators have been Until Kleinert (Der Samurai) and Canine Haus’ Erol Yesilkaya, who’s a producer and scriptwriter. Actors together with Hyuan Wanner, Patrick Isermeyer, Eidin Jalali and Dennis Schuermann have been forged.
The destiny of the present has been a subject of debate amongst German producers in current months, with one supply saying it appeared to have “ended up in a darkish cellar.” Netflix declined to remark, however the streamer has ditched the mission. Content material at Netflix’s DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) area is led by VP of Content material Katja Hofem. Neither Wiedemann & Berg or Canine Haus had responded to requests for remark at press time.
Nonetheless, Netflix confirmed over the weekend German gangster collection Crooks will get a second season following the success of the primary, which landed close to the highest of the streamer’s non-English TV charts in a number of nations and briefly charted stateside.
The Wiedemann & Berg present is amongst a number of the indie has with Netflix this 12 months. Others embrace the lately launched Sixty Minutes, wherein a combined martial arts fighter races throughout Berlin to attend his daughter’s party or threat dropping custody. Additional down the road is Brick, a movie that follows a pair whose residence constructing is immediately surrounded by a mysterious brick wall, and Blame the Recreation, a few video games evening that goes turns into sophisticated. Each have been unveiled at a Subsequent on Netflix occasion in Berlin earlier this 12 months.
Wiedemann & Berg is a part of Leonine Studios, which was lately acquired by France’s Mediawan. It made Prime Video’s big-budget drama collection The Gryphon with Canine Haus, which additionally grew to become a part of a French group this 12 months when it was purchased by Newen Studios by way of new label Spark Studios. The group behind Canine Haus have made exhibits similar to Tatort and Exit.