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June 21, 2024
Meet THOSE ABOUT TO DIE at NATPE Budapest
International distributor Eccho Rights will bring Those About to Die, the forthcoming epic period drama starring Anthony Hopkins, to NATPE Budapest. The 10×60-minute Peacock original is produced by AGC Studios, High End Productions, Street Entertainment, Hollywood Gang and Centropolis Entertainment.
Stockholm - THOSE ABOUT TO DIE, the forthcoming epic
period drama starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, will be available to buyers at NATPE
Budapest from international distributor Eccho Rights.
The title, directed
by Hollywood legend Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After
Tomorrow) is a Peacock Original, the streamer’s biggest budget production
to date. Eccho Rights is handling first window sales throughout Central and
Eastern Europe, as well as second windows in various Western European
territories.
“This is a landmark
series, and both in front of and behind the camera, we have a team of
extraordinary talent and experience, making this a unique opportunity for
buyers looking to bring Hollywood-scale production to their viewers,” says
Herbert L. Kloiber, CEO of Eccho Rights.
Alongside Sir Anthony
Hopkins, the series stars Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones), Tom Hughes (The
English), Sara Martins (Death in Paradise), Jojo Macari (Sex
Education), Moe Hashim (Ted Lasso) and Dimitri Leonidas (Riviera).
Produced by AGC
Studios, High End Productions, Street Entertainment, Hollywood Gang and
Centropolis Entertainment, THOSE ABOUT TO DIE is created by Robert Rodat
(Saving Private Ryan) who wrote five of the episodes. Emmerich directs
five episodes, with BAFTA-winning Marco Kreuzpaintner (The Lazarus Project)
also directing five.
THOSE ABOUT TO
DIE (10 x 60’) takes us
to Rome, 79 AD. Heirs to the empire Titus (Hughes) and Domitian (Macari) are
vying for the throne soon to be vacated by their elderly father Vespasian
(Hopkins). As tensions mount, everyone’s fates hinge on the intense races and
deadly games at the Circus Maximus and Flavian Amphitheatre, where the scheming
and corrupt bookmaker Tenax (Rheon), holds sway over Rome’s future.
Executive producers
on the series are Emmerich, Harald Kloser (2012), Gianni Nunnari (300);
Herbert G. Kloiber, Martin Moszkowicz, Oliver Berben, and Jonas Bauer for High
End Productions; Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, Charles Holland and Miguel A. Palos
Jr. for AGC Studios; Marco Kreuzpaintner, Robert Rodat and Namit Malhotra.
