Greengrass’ film Oslo about the 2011 terrorist attack was granted NOK 17.1 million by the Norwegian Film Institute from a total of NOK 24.4 million.

The latest film by the English director, famous for the dramatization of real-life events such as Bloody Sunday about the 1972 Irish civil rights protest and massacre and three Jason Bourne films, will be produced by Scott Rubin, Gregory Goodman and Eli Bush (Little Lord Productions) for Netflix.

According to Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende, Greengrass got the idea to adapt the story of the terrorist attack in Oslo and on the island of Utøya by right wing extremist Anders Breivik, after reading the book by Åsne Seierstad En av oss (‘One of us’).

The film will not only reconstruct the attack but also focus on the trial and the way the Norwegian nation handled the tragic event.

The second largest filming incentive grant of NOK 6,325,000 was allocated to the US franchise film Mission Impossible 6, written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie for Paramount Pictures. The Tom Cruise vehicle is schedule to be released in the US in the summer 2018.

The UK TV drama The Innocents (8x60’) directed by Farren Blackburn (Hammer of the Gods, The Fades) for TI Productions’s Charlie Pattinson (The White Queen) was granted NOK 950,000.

Six projects have applied for the second round of the filming tax rebate administered by the Norwegian Film Institute that had a full budget of NOK 56 million for the incentive scheme in 2017.

Stine Helgeland, NFI Executive Director, Promotion & International Relations said there were ‘many strong applicants’ for this round of support. “Each one and all together, these projects will contribute to show Norwegian nature and culture through spectacular film scenery and themes that reflect Norwegian reality. In addition, many Norwegian film workers will gain valuable expertise and the film industry’s international network will be reinforced,“ she said.

Tomas Alfredson’s crime thriller The Snowman - currently number one at the Norwegian box office - was granted the lion share of the Norwegian filming incentives (NOK 40.5m out of NOK 45m) when the scheme was first launched in 2016, plus an extra NOK 10.6M earlier this year.