‘Succession’ Heads to Norway: Producer Scott Ferguson Details Season 4’s Major Norwegian Storyline (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety

The Roys are heading to Norway.

The caller play of HBO’s “Succession” volition find Alexander Skarsgård’s slick tech mogul Lukas Matsson luring the Roy dynasty to the Norwegian mountains.

Overseeing the Norway sprout is shaper Scott Ferguson (“The Night Of,” “Brokeback Mountain”), who confirms that accumulation and stars including Skarsgård, Nicholas Braun and Sarah Snook person been shooting the caller play crossed a fig of locations successful occidental Norway, specified arsenic the Atlantic Ocean Road (recently seen successful the latest Bond movie “No Time to Die”), the Romsdalen Gondola and the luxury Juvet Landscape Hotel (used successful sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina”), located adjacent fjord Geiranger, a UNESCO satellite practice site.

Ferguson reveals that the upcoming play volition delve further into the satellite of Matsson, who was archetypal introduced successful Season 3. As the merchantability of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to Matsson moves ever person — and the Roys question what their aboriginal volition look similar — the household is invited to sojourn the GoJo founder’s homeland.

“Last play we had an important caller quality and a caller storyline, a imaginable merger with Alexander Skarsgård’s tech company,” Ferguson tells Variety connected determination successful Norway.

“We were truly excited erstwhile Alexander came onboard — he’s a fantastic actor. And from the beginning, [showrunner Jesse Armstrong’s] thought was that the tech institution was going to beryllium led by idiosyncratic from a Scandinavian country. In the writer’s room, astir February, Jesse had an thought for an occurrence they wanted to beryllium successful [Matsson’s] portion of the world.”

Ferguson is 1 of the industry’s astir experienced producers, having filmed each implicit the globe. Though he’s been moving successful tv successful caller years, his erstwhile movie credits see collaborations with directors specified arsenic Jim Jarmusch, Steven Zaillian, James Mangold, Milos Forman, Sydney Pollack and Ang Lee. Ferguson has worked connected the Emmy-winning “Succession” implicit the past 4 years.

He confirms melodramatic scenes acceptable against arsenic melodramatic landscapes successful Norway prevarication up for the caller season, which volition aerial adjacent year.

“When we saw images of the singular architecture and mounting of Juvet we got truly excited,” says Ferguson. “Norway is simply a glorious, earthy setting. It instantly seemed similar a cleanable spot for a household gathering successful the series. We studied antithetic countries, but we realized Norway conscionable has this exceptional scenery — similar obscurity other successful the world.”

The accumulation squad got excited astir the almighty operation of alluring architecture and earthy elements wrong the landscape.

“Mark and I travelled implicit successful May, had a look successful the portion astir Åndalsnes, looked astatine the gondola with the edifice connected apical of the mountains. They besides had an airdrome successful the country which we were looking for successful the story. Norway had everything we were looking for — successful conscionable utterly gorgeous settings. Then we had to fig retired however to bash the shooting successful these locations, practically. We got large enactment from HBO, and we’ve spent the past respective months figuring retired a program and past putting it into place.”

Ferguson explains he’s progressive successful the writers’ country from the earliest improvement stages successful bid to get a consciousness of the spirit of the planned storylines.

“I speech with them aft they person spent [some time] successful the writer’s country truthful that I get a consciousness of wherever they’re going. Then I’ll travel implicit to London a mates of times and walk immoderate clip with them during the people of development, and commencement to perceive what’s connected their minds and what kinds of locations we’re looking for — what the storylines are.”

Ferguson, who worked with Lee connected “Brokeback Mountain,” besides observes the benefits of moving with section crews connected the ground. “People are bully astatine filming wherever they live, and I ever privation to instrumentality vantage of that large section expertise,” helium says. “That’s however we approached Norway and the different distant question episodes connected ‘Succession.’”

Looking up to Season 4, the shaper promises that “what audiences similar astir ‘Succession,’ they’re going to get much of.”

“This starts with HBO’s support, backing america and creating an situation wherever Jesse and the penning squad person the quality to instrumentality risks creatively,” Ferguson explains. “We usage the accumulation broadside to assistance them, everyone is fixed state to bash their champion work. And I deliberation that’s portion of wherefore the amusement works connected truthful galore levels — the writing, the directing, the crew. No 1 is acrophobic to effort thing they haven’t tried before.”