Tomas Alfredson To Adapt Jo Nesbø’s ‘The Snowman’
Jo Nesbø
Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson will be directing an adaptation of The Snowman, the seventh novel in an ongoing crime series from Norwegian author Jo Nesbø.
He will be taking over from previously attached director Martin Scorsese, who will still be acting as executive producer alongside Working Title‘s Liza Chasin and Amelia Granger. Alfredson will also be collaborating on a first draft of the screenplay with co-writer Soren Sveistrup.
Alfredson rose to prominence with the 2008 vampire drama Let The Right One In, which he followed up with his critically acclaimed English-language debut Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in 2011, an adaptation of John le Carré‘s Cold War-set espionage thriller.
The Snowman follows the unorthodox Oslo detective Harry Hole, who has so far appeared in ten stories from creator Nesbø. This particular case sees Hole on the trail of a serial killer whose modus operandi involves leaving a snowman at the scene of all of his crimes.
Nesbø has gained in popularity during the last decade and is now considered to be one of Scandinavia’s leading names in the industry. There has so far been two previous big-screen adaptations of his written works; sleek thriller Headhunters, which starred Aksel Hennie and Game Of Thrones‘ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and black comedy Jackpot, both of which released in the UK in 2012.
