17/12/2013 - After Game of Thrones, Fortitude will be the next UK-US television series to shoot in Iceland – about two detectives investigating a violent murder in “one of the safest towns on earth”

After servicing the US production of Game of Thrones in Iceland – the HBO fantasy drama television series starring, ao, Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – Icelandic production company Pegasus Pictures will receive Fortitude, a “dark and adult drama” for the UK’s Sky and America’s Starz.

According to Icelandic Cinema Now, a large part of the 13x60minute series will shoot at Reydarfjordur in Eastern Iceland (and in the UK), with Irish actor Michael Gambon (Harry Potter 1+2), Danish actress Sofie Gråbøl (The Killing) and American actor Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games) in the principal cast.

Surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic landscape, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth – it has never seen a violent crime until now, when the close-knit Arctic community is ripped apart by a gruesome murder of a British research scientist.

As the idyllic community struggles to make sense of the murderous terror that has been let loose, local head of police Dan Anderssen is forced to work alongside DCI Milton Caldwell, a UK detective who’s just flown in, and they both find compelling reasons to mistrust each other.

Created and written by Simon Donald (of US crime-drama series Low Winter Sun fame), Fortitude will be produced by Patrick Spence, Simon Donald and Andrew Woodhead for the UK’s Fifty Fathoms-Tiger Aspect, Anne Mensah and Madonna Baptiste for Sky and Colin Callander for Starz. It will transmit on Sky Atlantic, the BSkyB entertainment pay TV channel, in the UK and Starz in the US in 2014.