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Nordisk and Friland back Amundsen in race to reach South Pole before Scott

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- Norway's Friland Produksjon joins forces with Danish major Nordisk Film to produce major epic on the Norwegian explorer who was first to reach the South Pole

Danish major Nordisk Film are into expeditions. After having produced Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning's Oscar-nominated action-adventure Kon-Tiki [+see also:
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, through its Norwegian production shingle with the UK's Recorded Picture Company, it has now partnered with Norway's Friland Produksjon to send Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (photo) to the South Pole.

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Nordisk has joined Norwegian producers Asle Vatn and Pål Røed, of Friland Produksjon, who have instigated he project - "an epic and grand feature of our greatest Polar hero". Also backing Morten Tyldum's Headhunters [+see also:
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, Friland will shortly release Erik Skjoldbjærg's Pioneer and Bård Breien's Detective Downs.
 
Amundsen (1872-1928) dropped medicine studies in Oslo and went to the sea. His first Antarctic trip was in 1899 when he was one of the first to over winter in Antarctica, because his ship was trapped in the pack ice. Next he drifted over the North Pole in the exploratory ship of Nansen.
 
In 1910 Amundsen and the Nansen were again on the way to the North Pole, when during a stop-over at Madeira - now Peary and Henson had already been there - he disclosed the real goal to the crew: they were challenging UK explorer Robert Falcon Scott to be first on the South Pole and beat him. On December 14, 1911, they arrived on dog sleds, having covered 1,860 miles in 99 days. Amundsen died at 55 in a plane crash searching for a missing friend.
 
Norwegian writer Christopher Grøndahl (Skjoldbjærg's Nokas [+see also:
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) is currently scripting the film, which will be executive produced by Nordisk's Lone Korslund (Kon-Tiki, Headhunters, Millennium Trilogy).

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