After the disaster film The Wave and its sequel The Quake that each had budgets of around NOK50 million, Fantefilm has even bigger ambitions for its next untitled genre film, set to cost NOK72 million according to the Norwegian Film Institute which granted the project NOK15 million in production support.

The Quake’s director Andersen and producer Martin Sundland are attached, as well producer and marketing expert Catrin Gundersen. The film is co- written by Fantefilm’s in-house scriptwriters Harald Rosenløw Eeg (The King’s Choice) and Lars Gudmestad (Next Summer), but no detail about the story was unveiled by the producers, besides the fact that it will be another ‘spectacular, awe-inspiring and dramatic film’.

Fantefilm’s latest event movie The Quake is still ruling at the Norwegian B.O. with an impressive 425,328 admissions after after three weeks on screens.

The other new Norwegian genre film, The Tunnel (Tunnelen) produced by Nordisk Film received NOK 7 million from the NFI towards its NOK34 million budget.

Director Pål Øie has partnered again with writer Kjersti Helen Rasmussen(Villmark 2) for the story of a father and a daughter, caught in a fire inferno: A winter storm is raging in the mountains, when a fire starts in a tunnel, keeping travellers on their way home for Christmas, trapped and fighting for survival. Nordisk Film’s John Einar Hagen is producing, together with Einar Loftesnes of Bergen-based Mad Monkey. According to nrk.no, the genre film will start filming in February 2019.