Kristoffer Joner and Ane Dahl Torp will take up their roles of The Wave in a new disaster film produced by Fantefilm.

Almost the entire team behind Norway’s 2015 box office hit The Wave is back for the sequel film The Quake (Skjelvet) set to start filming in October 2017, according to NRK.

Established cinematographer John Andreas Andersen (Headhunters, King of Devil’s Island) who directed two episodes of Occupied, will make his feature film debut and replace Roar Uthaug. But the same writing duo Harald Rosenløw Eeg and John Kåre Raake, and production partners Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm of Fantefilm Film are on the new roller-coaster ride.

The film is inspired again by true events, as a real earthquake of magnitude 5.4 shook Oslo in 1904. Three years after surviving a tsunami, geologist Kristian Eikjord (Joner), his wife (Dahl Torp) son (Jonas Hoff Oftebro reconfirmed for the part), and daughter have moved to Oslo, hoping to live a safe and quiet life. But they are confronted with another earth-shattering experience.

The NOK50-60m project has received a NOK 13.9m production grant from the Norwegian Film Institute. Pitched for the first time at the European Film Market, the film was pre-sold by TrustNordisk to German-speaking territories (SquareOne),  Latin America (California), China (DD Dream), Hong Kong (Sundream), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Middle East (Gulf) and South Korea (AtNine) among others. The film will open domestically in August 2018.

The Wave (2015) was a huge critical and commercial success for Fantefilm. The film sold more than 800,000 tickets at home and was acquired by major world distributors such as Magnolia Pictures in the US and Studiocanal in the UK.