The Norwegian legend that Netflix revives: ‘Troll’, when the giant of Dovre awakens

It lasted many years sleeping, now the legend of Norway’s giant monster wakes up with the new movie on netflix will debut in December 2022. Rour Uthaug is the basis of ‘Troll’, the new fantasy and mystery film, which develops one of the most famous legends of Scandinavian countries and with which he himself grew up hearing about the giants of the mountains.

Weeks ago Netflix revealed a short preview of the Norwegian film coming out on its streaming platform, the trailer wowed the audience and it is speculated that it may be one of the big hits of the end of the year. Recently, the streaming giant also unveiled the new promotional poster of the feature film that will be added to its catalog later. December 1, 2022.

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Rour’s new film project, which was the basis of films such as’The wave‘Y’Tom Raider‘, will show the story of an ancient giant troll who lay asleep for years on a Norwegian mountain. When he wakes up, he will also have aroused chance and terror in the city; a group of heroes must join forces to try to stop the deadly consequences of their anger with humans.

Troll slept soundly in the mount dovre, unexpectedly something gigantic has awakened after thousands and moles of years. The huge monster will have no mercy on anything in its path, chaos and destruction, it will be what it will leave without anyone being able to stop it, or so it believes because until now it had only existed in the legends of Norwegian folklore.

The mountains will shift and Netflix will start the hunt with the premiere of ‘Troll’

What we will see in ‘Troll’in December 2022, it is very similar to the experience of’troll hunter‘(2010) by André Øvredal, albeit in a different style. Rour experiences the central idea of ​​a huge ancient troll that has been awakened by humans and has now aroused his anger.

The director revealed for The wrapper that this film had haunted him in his mind for years. The story is something he grew up with as a child and never managed to break away from, and it is that, from an early age, it is common to hear endless legends that, like in the movie, we are not ready to find out why we believe they do not exist. . Now that story has come to fruition. Netflix.

For Rour, ‘Troll’ is an idea that he has been developing for many years in his mind, perhaps in the last twenty years of his life he had wanted to make it happen and it is time that he will finally be able to realize it thanks to the ambitious planning and enthusiasm with which Netflix and Morion Blur welcomed the project.

It’s definitely a dream come true and I can’t wait to show everyone this Norwegian monster, ”Rour said.

The story of ‘Troll’ is written by Espen Aukanand starring Marie Wilmann, Kim Falck, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen and Gard Eidsvold. The production was handled by Motion Blur’s Espen Horn and Kristian Strand Sinkerud for Netflix. The mountains will shift and Netflix will start the troll hunt in Europe at the premiere of “Trolls” on December 1st.