Co-Producer Oliver Ackermann on Making The Serpent in Bangkok [S5.E10]

Greg and Ed interview Oliver Ackermann, one of the
co-producers of the Thailand-based Netflix series "The Serpent,"
about 1970s era serial killer Charles Sobhraj. Oliver is a
partner in Living Films, a prominent production company based in
Thailand famous for shepherding large foreign productions (such
as Hangover 2, which our buddy Chris Lowenstein
talked about on season 1) through the maze of Thai
government regulations as well as Thai culture in general. Oliver
walks through his process of finding locations in Thailand that
can mimic almost any place in the world, and laying the
groundwork for a small army of people to make a globetrotting
series about murder and deception in Bangkok.


Oliver also discusses his role helping foreign actors
adjust to Thai culture and temperature, interfacing with the Thai
film board that must approve all scripts, the amazing local Thai
film crews, the BBC's obsessive research on the source material
for 'The Serpent,' and how to find dozens of genuine, functioning
1970s era automobiles in Thailand. In short, if you want to know
anything about foreign film productions in Thailand, Oliver is
your man. :) 


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