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The Tunnel is a British–French crime drama television series adapted from the 2011 Danish–Swedish crime series The Bridge (Bron/Broen). The series began broadcasting on 16 October 2013 on Sky Atlantic in the UK, and on 11 November 2013 on Canal+ in France. The series stars Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy as British and French police detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann. The plot follows the two detectives…
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Over recent years, audiences—whether literary or television-based—have had numerous opportunities to discover the talents of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish crime writers, resulting in many authors from these countries achieving fame previously unimaginable. Local television studios quickly recognised this trend, producing a string of exceptionally popular TV series capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with the m…More
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I feel as though my creative diet lately has consisted too much of science fiction lately, so I decided to delve into some (relatively) local horror. In 2011, a bunch of people got together, crowd funded a film, and released it via BitTorrent, and other means. With a budget of only $135,000 and a run time of 90 minutes, shot over something like 2 weeks, that's about $10k a day for production costs. Probably less tha…More
In the first decades of cinema the mere novelty of film as a technology made genre of science fiction appealing to film makers. Some of the most expensive and ambitious film projects of those times were based on science fiction novels. One of those is *The Tunnel*, 1915 German silent epic directed by William Wauer, often cited as the first science fiction feature film in history. The film is based on eponymous bests…More
Two films can be separated by only a few years, but, when compared, look as if they are separated by decades. One of the earliest examples can be provided by the 1933 Franco-German science fiction film *The Tunnel*, which was in 1935 remade as an eponymous British film directed by Maurice Elvey, also known under the title *Transatlantic Tunnel*. The film is based on the popular 1913 novel by German author Bernhard K…More
Arrival of sound technology brought serious problems for film makers, at least those targeting foreign markets. Inability of audiences to understand dialogue in foreign languages meant that the commercial prospects of such films would be severely limited. With still relatively poor quality of sound, dubbing was impractical and subtitles even more so, making it more sensible to instantly remake a film, or, more preci…More