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HEL, THE LAST SAGA: THE SERIES

Horror - Development 2023

A shipwrecked Viking awakens on a strange island, prowled by terrifying beasts and a Forgotten God, and has to escape before he is doomed to spend eternity there.

Festivals
& Awards

Lonely Wolf International Film Festival 2021

Best unproduced TV Series Screenplay

L.A. Sci-Fi Film Festival 2021

Best Action Screenplay

Le Festival du Film Fantastique de France 2021

Best Feature Screenplay

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Writing Festival 2021

Winner

Los Angeles Film Awards 2021

Best Horror Screenplay

Vegas Movie Awards 2021

Best Screenwriter/Feature

International Independent Film Awards 2022

Best Sci-Fi Script

Indie Cinema Awards 2022

Best unproduced Fantasy Script

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Horror, Action/Adventure, TV Series
- Countries
- USA, CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 25 - 50 M$
- Duration
- 270 mn
- Synopsis
- When Alvar, Chief of the Northern Clans of the Vikings, is washed ashore from his wrecked longship onto a forbidding, mist-wreathed beach – his mind full of disturbing visions of a dead daughter and red, unnatural burning eyes – he momentarily doesn’t know where or even “when” he is. It takes the voices of his very-much-alive daughter Erika, and her hawk Valr, to remind him that he is on a mission to find King Haakon, and, along with the majority of his people, to establish a new realm far from home.
  
  The storm that destroyed their longships has left the Queen’s craft largely intact. Even the King’s fool, Geirolf, has survived. With summer ending, it is obvious the new settlers will have to build stores and shelters to survive the harsh Northern winter. Their Christian, Anglo-Saxon queen – Petronilla – is concerned about her authority over the mostly pagan Vikings. She pushes them to find the King, who, she assumes, has also been shipwrecked on this land. What first looks like a dragon turns out to be the figurehead of Haakon’s ship. This discovery strengthens Petronilla’s resolve to find the King.
  
  Will the new arrivals succeed in escaping this strange land? At first they interpret the attack of a strange beast and other occurrences as natural, rather than supernatural. But they soon realise this is a land of myths, after all, when they spot Dark Elves, straight from legend, watching their camp.
  
  The camp takes shape. Erika, conflicted by her love for shield maiden Bergunn and the handsome young Toke, accompanies young Jorik into the forest to teach the queen’s handmaid, Lesceline, the art of trapping. Clashing Christians and pagan attitudes cause friction amongst the people.
  
  A mysterious, hairy creature who is caught raiding their forge turns out to be a native of these Northern Lands – Qurtoq, the Inuit, dressed in furs. Surprisingly he can speak some Viking words but it's hard to decipher his cryptic comments about his encounters with their King. Furthermore, the stranger claims to have encountered them before – an impossibility as far as they are concerned, because they have just arrived on the island.
  
  The factions put aside their differences when they are attacked by an army of elves, supported by giant trolls. This is the sort of challenge the Viking berserkers have been looking for. The trolls are stronger and the elves are faster than the Vikings, but the Vikings have the advantage of iron axes and swords, whereas the enemy is using stone-age weapons and do not have access to fire. However, there is another enemy out there – a force far more terrible than elves and trolls. To their horror, Erika and Jorik witness first-hand how this nebulous enemy tears the terrified Lesceline apart.
  
  After a heroic battle worthy of Viking legends, Alvar is beheaded.
  
  And then, once more, Alvar finds himself being shipwrecked on the strange coast as if time itself has been rewound…

HEL, THE LAST SAGA: THE SERIES

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