BEESLAAR

Genre
Crime

Status
In Pre-Production

Format
3 stories
6 x 1 Hr or
3 x 2 Hr

Captain Albertus Beeslaar has left tragedy in the city of Johannesburg behind him, only to have his hopes of finding peace in an isolated station in the far Northern Cape shattered by a brutal farm murder.

It is only the first in a series of cases that take Captain Beeslaar from Stellenbosch to Soweto and out into the Kalahari itself.

Karin Brynard is an ex-journalist who earned her stripes during the Freedom Struggle of the eighties. Her Beeslaar novels, ‘Weeping Waters’, ‘Our Fathers’, and ‘Homeland’ took the South African market by storm, becoming instant bestsellers. All have been now been published in English.

Writers 

UK Screenwriters: Marteinn Thorisson and  Colin Bateman

Marteinn adapted the bestselling Irish crime novels of Ken Bruen into the hit TV drama ‘Jack Taylor’ starring Iain Glen. Colin Bateman wrote long running BBC1 drama series ‘Murphy’s Law’ starring James Nesbitt, and most recently the critically acclaimed feature film ‘The Journey’, starring Colm Meaney and Tim Spall.

Co Produced with Scribe Studios