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Something to sea: ‘The Swarm’ turns oceans into humanity’s enemies on The CW BY JAY BOBBIN
Not to be mistaken for disaster-movie master Irwin Allen’s 1978 saga of a killer-bee invasion, “The Swarm” still sends up an environmental alarm.
best-known cast member internationally, Germany’s
story. It couldn’t be something where you simply
Barbara Sukowa (“Two of Us”).
changed the nationalities of the characters.
Executive producer Frank Doelger is a veteran of
“Also, if this had been made as a film, it would
Already shown in many other countries, the series
many HBO projects, including “Game of Thrones,”
have been a disaster movie … but I didn’t want to
based on Frank Schatzing’s novel about a worldwide
and he applied something from that hugely popular
simply make a disaster movie. I wanted to make
string of ocean-related crises has its North American
series to “The Swarm.” He says, “We really worked
a classic monster story where the characters know
premiere Tuesday, Sept. 12, on The CW. Whales
hard to get the balance of reality and the fantasy
something is out there, and they don’t know what
and crabs are among the creatures of the deep that
elements correct. We felt that would be essential to
it is, so they have to find out and then figure out a
suddenly begin a rampage against mankind, prompt-
bringing in an audience and also to giving the show
way to defeat it. And we wanted it to dawn on these
ing a global team of scientists to head to the Arctic
the weight it had. We were very lucky to find, as con-
scientists that the monster they’re dealing with is one
Ocean to combat the life force that is causing the
sultants, some scientists who were used to informing
that they’ve created.”
emergency.
the public about things in the most straightforward
In line with the nature of the story, production en-
Though “The Swarm” had what Doelger calls a “generous” budget, he wanted to be judicious in
way.”
tities around the world were involved in making “The
The multinational approach of “The Swarm” as a
using visual effects, so that those didn’t overwhelm
Swarm,” and the ensemble cast has a global view as
literary work was a perfect fit, Doelger maintains, for
other aspects of the tale. He reflects, “The challenge
well. Stars of the eight-episode drama include Bel-
what he wanted to do in filmic terms. “When I was
was how to keep the presence of the monster alive.
gium’s Cecile de France (“High Tension”), Sweden’s
approached to create this new company to make
We wanted to create a sense that the ocean is the
Alexander Karim, Germany’s Leonie Benesch (“The
high-budget, high-quality, international dramas in
monster, and we wanted to use it as much as we
Crown”), Canada’s Joshua Odjick, Japan’s Takuya
English,” he explains, “one of the caveats was that
could, so it was for both financial and creative rea-
Kimura, Finland’s Krista Kosonen and arguably the
‘international’ must be defined by the nature of the
sons to limit the visual effects.”
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