King of Norway is a deeply personal feature film exploring inheritance, estrangement, and the cost of return — rooted in my own Norwegian lineage and developed through immersive research in Norway. The R&D phase will support a period of language study, cultural immersion, and on-the-ground relationship building with Norwegian producers, actors, and collaborators to ensure the film is made with full authenticity and creative integrity. This is not a film about Norway from the outside — it is a film made from inside a culture I am in the process of reclaiming.