EXCLUSIVE: Felony Code is a breakout hit for Netflix. The Brazilian motion drama, primarily based on actual occasions, has landed effectively at dwelling and internationally. Season 2 drops quickly and Deadline acquired a while with sequence director and showrunner Heitor Dhalia. We are able to additionally solely share the primary footage from the upcoming season.
Felony Code scaled Netflix’s high 10 in 70 nations, together with the U.S. and Canada. On dwelling turf, it was the most-watched Brazilian sequence within the second half of 2023 when it launched, and likewise one of many most-watched exhibits by means of 2024.
Set within the crime world in and across the Triple Frontier, a three-border space the place Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet, the drama was impressed by a theft that came about in 2017 and ensuing real-life occasions. The brand new season entails a jail break and follows a felony group, the Phantom Gang, endeavor extra daring heists whereas being pursued by the cops.
“We discovered quite a bit in Season 1 and expanded the scope of the sequence on this second season,” Dhalia mentioned. “The success of the primary season motivated us to take extra dangers in exploring the depth of the crime universe within the Triple Frontier.”
Dhalia and the Felony Code crew are breaking new floor with a Brazilian motion drama impressed by true crime. The crew went to lengths to verify their sequence, though fictionalized, felt genuine.
“Crime sequence should respect the codes of the universe we painting; this is likely one of the secrets and techniques that captures the viewers’s consideration,” he mentioned. “We researched and deeply understood the crime universe, working with actual consultants, police from all forces, and former criminals, ex-bank robbers, and ex-international traffickers.”
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Felony Code stars Maeve Jinkings, Rômulo Braga, Thomás Aquino and Alex Nader. The story is instructed from completely different viewpoints and Dhalia added: “The energy and conflict of views make the sequence what it’s and provides it the reality it holds. We have now many former inmates within the solid, which brings a singular reality to the present.”
Dhalia is a Associate on the manufacturing firm Paranoid. His background is moviemaking, having directed movies together with Drained, which performed at Sundance, Adrift, which was within the Un Sure Regard part at Cannes, and Amanda Seyfried-starrer Gone.
In addition to Felony Code, he’s ending up one other Netflix venture, Os Donos do Jogo (which roughly interprets as The Homeowners of the Recreation, nevertheless it doesn’t but have an official English-language title). That may comply with the Rio de Janeiro playing mafia. He says it has comparable core ideas as Felony Code.
Brazil has a storied filmmaking historical past. In TV, in the meantime, it’s recognized internationally for long-running melodramas. With motion sequence reminiscent of Felony Code and shortly Os Donos do Jogo hitting worldwide screens, viewers all over the world are seeing a distinct taste of Brazilian TV drama.
Dhalia says: “I hope this marks a brand new chapter for Brazilian productions to shine on the world stage. As one of many characters on this new present says: ‘Solely those that play win.’”
