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WATCH PULSE : SEASON 01
Available to stream now on Amazon Prime Video UK.
An electromagnetic pulse bomb disables a secure but ageing building and disrupts the bioelectric signals in the occupants' minds. Trapping an international group of young video game designers and turning each floor into a psychotic battlefield. The only way out is to use their collective abilities to battle floor by floor through mayhem, madness and murder to escape. it's no longer a game.
Produced by Media Musketeers, ForLan Films & Red Mirror Films in Co-Production with Showmax, Canal+ International & The MediaPro Studio.
M-NET / DSTV: 19th September 2023
Strong Global Entertainment Inc today announced that its subsidiary Strong Studios, Inc. (“Strong Studios”) (Safehaven, Flagrant, Inside the Black Box), will partner with Convergent Media, UK’s ForLan Films and M-Net to produce the new crime drama series, Endangered. The project is based on one of a series of bestselling novels from the popular South African crime writer, Rudie van Rensburg. Two-time BAFTA award-winner Stuart Urban (The Mystery of Suzy Lamplugh, The Secret, May I Kill U?) will direct with screenwriter Jake Riddell (Reyka, Grantchester, London Kills, Death in Paradise) penning the six-part limited series. Based on the novel, Piranha by Van Rensburg, Endangered centres around Montgomery Smith, a wealthy Englishman-in-exile, who runs an illegal, corrupt, and dangerous syndicate smuggling Africa's White Gold, the endangered rhino horn, and the legendary veteran detective Captain Kassie Kasselman, who aggressively pursues Smith from the Cape ganglands to the Kruger National Parks to Pretoria, South Africa's bustling political capital. Kassie must unravel the mystery and stop Smith’s syndicate of criminal gangs and poachers. Endangered is more than just a crime thriller: it's a snapshot of a country that has always lived by the mantra: adapt or die.
VARIETY: 19th September 2023
South African crime writer Rudie Van Rensburg’s “Piranha” is set to be adapted into a new crime drama series from Strong Studios. Titled “Endangered,” the project is being shopped as a six-episode limited series written by screenwriter Jake Riddell (“Reyka,” “Grantchester”) and directed by BAFTA award winner Stuart Urban (“The Mystery of Suzy Lamplugh”). “Endangered” follows the story of Montgomery Smith, a rich but exiled Englishman who is being pursued for smuggling endangered rhino horn, and also tells the tale of the veteran detective Captain Kassie Kasselman, who’s after him. “While researching rhino poaching, I became increasingly aware of how serious of a problem it is,” said Van Rensburg in a statement. “It’s a great honour to have such renowned filmmakers helming the production of ‘Endangered,’ and I’m delighted that this issue will be brought to the attention of a wider audience.” The Van Rensburg tale is set across South Africa and would film there as well. Production on “Endangered” is slated to begin in early 2024. Strong Studios is producing in partnership with Convergent Media, U.K.’s ForLan Films and M-Net/Multichoice Africa.
VARIETY: 8th August 2022
BET+ has picked up the U.S. streaming rights to South African-produced sci-fi survival thriller “Pulse,” which tells the explosive story of an electromagnetic pulse that disables a secure building and disrupts the bio-electric signals in everyone’s minds, trapping a group of video game designers and turning each floor into a psychotic battlefield. The show questions whether the modern human race can really survive without the technology that defines our way of life today. The series shot in South Africa as well as Mauritius. The 6 x 60’ show was created by ForLan FIlms and the team includes executive producer Steve Lanning, producers Jake Lanning, Ben Lanning and Potego Matseke, writer Stephen R. Clarke, and director and producer Sallas De Jager. The cast includes Tarryn Wyngaard (“Raised By Wolves,” “The Tree”), Thapelo Mokoena (“Trackers,” “Nothing For Mahala”), Carel Nel (“Raised By Wolves,” “Grant”), Sven Ruygrok (“Spud,” “Zulu”) and Earl Wan (“Just Mates,” “Supercapitalist”). “Pulse” is produced by Media Musketeers, Forlan Film, Showmax and The Mediapro Studio.
‘PULSE’ SHOWMAX : 18th June 2022
It was picked by the Hollywood Reporter as one of the 25 buzziest series at this year’s MIPTV, a leading global TV market in Cannes, France. “Pulse is unique in so many ways,” says SAFTA winner Tarryn Wyngaard (Stam, DAM, Dwaalster). She plays Jaz, creator of a hit indie game that’s getting a mainstream reboot, for better or worse. “Stephen Clarke’s scripts were so incredibly out of this world and like nothing I’ve ever read before.” SAFTA winner Thapelo Mokoena (Trackers, Bulletproof, Wild at Heart) is playing against type as her ex, the reboot’s narcissistic producer. “There isn’t anything like this show,” he says. “No offence to every other amazing series I’ve made, but Pulse is really one of the most, if not the most, amazing project I’ve ever made in my 20-year career.”
VARIETY: 12th March 2021
Media Musketeers has boarded a pair of high-profile drama series, including “Pulse,” which is a six-part thriller produced with U.K.-based Forlan Films, MultiChoice’s streaming service Showmax and The Mediapro Studio. The show is written by Stephen Clarke, directed by Sallas de Jager, and produced by Primetime Emmy winner Steve Lanning. “Pulse” is also boasting visual effects from award-winners Laurent-Paul Robert and Hilton Treves. The series recently started filming in South Africa and will continue in Mauritius in March, with delivery expected in late 2021. Andy Docherty, managing partner at Media Musketeers, said, “Pulse” was “one of the first international projects entering Mauritius.” Marta Ezpeleta, The Mediapro Studio distribution and co-production head, said “’Pulse’ demonstrates the strength of co-productions when international companies join forces to develop big fiction projects.”
VARIETY: 14th October 2019
Media Musketeers partners with France’s Alliance Entreprendre to develop and produce content valued at up to €1 billion over the next 5 years, kicking off with ForLan Films TV projects ‘God Fearing Man’ and ‘Pulse’. It’s partnership with Media Musketeers underscores Alliance Entreprendre’s ambition to bolster its international strategy and link up with dynamic media companies which own IP’s. “With their considerable experience and innovative approach, and with the help of our investment, ‘Media Musketeers’ will be able create and own IP for distribution in the international television market,” said Antoine Bodet of Alliance Entreprendre. Under the deal, Bodet and Benjamin Duprez of Alliance Entreprendre will take a seat on the Media Musketeers board with immediate effect.
VARIETY: 14th May 2019
A high-end television drama based on an original screenplay by acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has been set as a first scripted project for new European production company Media Musketeers in partnership with ForLan Films. “God Fearing Man” is based on a book by Herbert Emerson Wilson and Kubrick’s original screenplay which tell the true story of a Canadian church minister-turned-safecracker who became one of the most successful bank robbers in U.S. history. Media Musketeers will collaborate with U.K. independent producer ForLan Films on the project. ForLan has developed the project as a four-hour TV drama, working with Philip Hobbs, who served as co-producer on Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War classic “Full Metal Jacket.” Hobbs will produce alongside ForLan’s Steve Lanning. Janin and Docherty will serve as executive producers.