EXCLUSIVE: When Whiskey-class Soviet submarine U137 ran aground in Sweden in 1981 it sparked a diplomatic fracas that threatened to ignite a global conflict. With nukes possibly in play, it was no laughing matter. The team behind Whiskey on the Rocks, a satirical take on the Cold War sub drama, beg to differ.
“Whiskey on the Rocks jokes about something as serious as when we stood on the threshold of a third world war, and it’s absolutely the right thing to do because the world needs more humor and self-awareness, not less,” Jonas Jonasson, the Swedish author of ‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’, says, speaking exclusively to Deadline.
He wrote an original story, from which Whiskey on the Rocks has been forged. The ensuing six-part series was tipped for success by Deadline in its European dramas to look out for in 2025. It
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