EXCLUSIVE: Peter Chernin’s North Highway Firm is returning to the Israeli TV market with a medical thriller starring Tehran‘s Niv Sultan.
North Highway has re-teamed with Israeli producer Sipur and native community Sizzling – its companions on juvenile jail sequence Unhealthy Boy – for Coronary heart of a Killer, the outfit’s second worldwide co-pro. Endemol Shine Israel can also be producing.
Now in principal pictures, Coronary heart of a Killer follows Dr. Dasi Nakash, performed by Sultan, a promising transplant surgeon who turns to illicit organ harvesting after a determined act to avoid wasting a good friend wronged by the hospital. This incident attracts her right into a whirlwind of ethical dilemmas, affected person rescues and conflicts with the underworld of the medical institution.
The present is created by Gal Zaid (Valley of Tears), Roni Yaddor and Laid Shoham, and directed by Evgeny Ruman (East Facet).
Sultan is a giant draw. She is finest identified for Apple TV+ hit Tehran, by which she performs Tamar Rabinyan, a younger Mossad agent and laptop hacker.
North Highway Worldwide President Jan David Frouman mentioned: “We couldn’t be extra thrilled to have the chance to as soon as once more associate with Sipur and Sizzling to deliver this extremely compelling story from Gal, Roni, Laid, Evgeny and your complete artistic group to audiences around the globe.”
Sipur CEO Emilio Schenker added that his indie is “excited to proceed our rewarding relationship with North Highway and Sizzling by reuniting for this unbelievable new scripted, ready-made, high-quality format.”
The information comes greater than a yr after North Highway, Sipur and Sizzling unveiled Unhealthy Boy from Euphoria creator Ron Leshem, which was North Highway’s debut worldwide co-pro. Chatting with Deadline final yr, Leshem defined the intriguing story behind Unhealthy Boy, which harked again to his time as an investigative journalist.
North Highway was launched in 2022 by Chernin, a former Chairman and CEO of the Fox Group, bringing collectively Chernin Leisure, the U.S. property of Crimson Arrow Studios, which incorporates Love Is Blind producer Kinetic Content material, and Connor Schell’s non-scripted enterprise Phrases + Photos. It has since acquired Jason Hehir’s Little Rooms Movies and Turkish outfit Karga Seven, and brought a “important stake” in Questlove’s Two One 5 Leisure.
Sipur is the studio behind We Will Dance Once more, the documentary concerning the Israeli Nova Music Pageant the place kids had been killed and kidnapped on October 7, which is able to quickly launch on BBC Storyville.
Coronary heart of a Killer is government produced by Amir Ganor for Endemol Shine Israel, Frouman for North Highway, Schenker, Michael Schmidt and Gideon Tadmor for Sipur; and Ori Gal, Dana Mendlinger and Mirit Toovi for Sizzling. The deal was negotiated by Ziffren Brittenham for North Highway and Michael Schmidt and Daphna Bar for Sipur.
