AMC+ Picks Up 'Smilla's Sense of Snow' Series — SkimNews
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- AMC+ acquired U.S. and Canadian streaming rights to 'Smilla's Sense of Snow,' a new series adaptation of Peter Høeg's bestselling novel set in a near-future Copenhagen threatened by an energy crisis.
- Filippa Coster-Waldau, Elyas M'Barek, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes lead the cast of the dystopian thriller, which is directed by BAFTA winner Amma Asante and adapted by Asante and Clive Bradley (Trapped).
- The series follows a withdrawn woman named Smilla whose investigation into the mysterious death of a young Inuit boy pulls her to Greenland and into 'dangerous political power games,' per the synopsis.
- Constatin Film, the German studio behind the Resident Evil films, produced the series alongside Viaplay, ARD Degeto Film, and Baltic Film Services, with backing from the European Union and film funds in Germany, Finland, and Lithuania.
- ITV Studios brokered the AMC+ deal as international distributor; the series is expected to bow on the streamer this fall, though no exact North American premiere date has been set.
- Høeg's novel previously inspired a 1997 film of the same name starring Julia Ormond and directed by Bille August, making this the source material's second screen adaptation.
Why it matters: AMC+ is adding a prestige, multi-country European coproduction — funded by the EU and German, Finnish, and Lithuanian film bodies, produced by the Resident Evil studio Constatin Film, and shepherded by BAFTA-winning director Amma Asante — to its fall slate. The dystopian premise (2040 surveillance state, energy crisis, Greenland power games) gives the streamer a buzzy literary adaptation with established built-in audience awareness from Høeg's bestseller.
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