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‘Ozark’s’ Mark Williams On ‘Safe Harbor,’ About Tech Geeks Caught in a Drug War, and Loving Keeping Things Gray
Stars Alfie Allen, Colm Meaney, Martijn Lakemeier also unpack their characters in ‘Safe Harbor.’
One of the highlights of Mipcom premiere screenings on Oct. 21, the buzzy international action thriller “Safe Harbor” repped by Eccho Rights, gathered in Cannes its starry creative team: Showrunner and “ Ozark ” co-creator Mark Williams, actors Colm Meaney (“Gangs of London,” “The Patriarch”) Alfie Allen(“Game of Thrones”) and Martijn Lakemeier (“Maxima”, “Marie-Antoinette”). To feed the story and bring authenticity, Williams and the production team did research into the narco-war between the Netherlands and Belgium and around hacking, although the Emmy-nominated showrunner was keen not to get techno-specific to avoid the audience being “bored and confused.” “For me, it was about understanding it enough so that I could speak the language, but not so deep that I would be a kind of professor in the field. As with most Williams works (including Netflix ‘s “Ozark,” the pics “The Accountant” starring Ben Affleck, Liam Neeson’s vehicles “Blacklight” and “Honest Thief”), the main characters in “Safe Harbor” navigate in the gray space, where their morality gets challenged.
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