Get the latest gossip
‘High Tides’ Star Willem De Schryver Set by Banijay’s Jonnydepony for Crime Drama ‘I Was a Cop in the 80s,’ Ahead of Göteborg Pitch (EXCLUSIVE)
Belgian prodco Jonnydepony has set Willem De Schryver for ‘I Was a Cop in the 80s,’ ahead of pitch at Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision.
Banijay Benelux’s Belgian banner Jonnydepony has set rising star Willem De Schryver from Netflix’s YA hit show” High Tides” (“Knokke Off”) for the title role of “I Was a Cop in the 80s,” ordered by Amazon Prime Netherlands and Flemish streamer Streamz. Perquy said that with their new premium show, De Schepper and Adriaensen were keen to depict via a character-driven story, the world of the gendarmerie [Belgium’s former paramilitary police force] in the turbulent 1980s, when the country was shaken by criminal gangs, such as the notorious ‘Brabant Killers’. Initially set up as an anti-drug squad, the group uses illegal techniques of infiltration and entrapment, and turns into criminals themselves, entangled in corruption and drug trafficking.
Or read this on Variety
