The 'Resident Evil' and 'Shadowhunters' producer is making a feature film and six-part event series based on the epic German poem the Nibelungenlied, an inspiration for 'Lord of the Rings.'
The Nibelungen saga has been adapted many times before, most famously in a series of two classic films from Fritz Lang in the 1920s. A TV movie version, in 2004, starred Kristanna Loken Brunhild, Alica Witt as Kriemhild and Julian Sands as Hagen; it is also famous as the acting debut of a young Robert Pattinson.
In Constantin’s interpretation of the 13th-century epic, Hagen is a Burgundian weapon master trying to keep his crisis-ridden kingdom together with a sense of duty and an iron fist while suppressing his own dark past and his secret love for the King’s daughter, Kriemhild.
RTL will handle German streaming and free-TV rights to the film and series, with Constantin owning the film and TV versions of the project worldwide.