Finding Safe Harbor


By Michael Pickard
April 22, 2025

DQ TV

Created by Mark Williams (Ozark) and inspired by true events, crime thriller Safe Harbor stars Alfie Allen as gifted hacker Tobias and Martijn Lakemeier as his ambitious best friend Marco who are intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club.

But their lives are upended when they offer up their services to hack into the computer system of Rotterdam harbour – Europe’s largest port – in order to control the deliveries of drug shipments in cargo containers for the Irish mob’s ramshackle European outpost in the Netherlands led by Charlie Murphy’s Sloane and Jack Gleeson as Farrell.

Commissioned by Dutch streamer Videoland and Belgium’s Streamz, Safe Harbor is a coproduction from Submarine, Night Train Media and Williams’s Zero Gravity Management. Williams wrote, co-directed and executive produces the series, which is based on an idea from Submarine co-founder and executive producer Femke Wolting. Herbert L Kloiber and James Copp are executive producers for Night Train Media.

Distributor Eccho Rights has also sold the series to ITV in the UK, Virgin Media Television in Ireland and SBS in Australia.

In this DQTV video, stars Allen (Game of Thrones), Colm Meaney (Hell on Wheels) and Lakemeier (Maxima) join Williams and Wolting to dive into the murky waters of Safe Harbor, discussing the characters at the heart of the story, the uneasy alliance between the “fish out of water” tech friends and the mobsters, how the idea behind the series was sparked by real newspaper reports and the ambition behind the show to explore a new setting for a crime drama.

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