Matthew Shepherd on the 2017 Jo Nesbo adaptation The Snowman… Most directors, when their film is failing with critics before it has even opened wide, say nothing. They give a carefully worded statement about artistic vision, defer to the audience, and wait for the conversation to move on. Tomas Alfredson did not do that. In […]
Netflix Review – Detective Hole: An Imperfect, but Worthy Addition to the Noir Genre
Jack Gayer reviews Detective Hole… Separate the art from the artist. For that matter, it’s also sensible to separate the art from its previous form. Yet as well-intentioned as it is to try to completely separate the previous version of a work with a new one, it’s ultimately a fool’s errand. It’s like asking someone […]
Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole gets a trailer from Netflix
Netflix has released a poster and trailer for Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole, the upcoming Norwegian mystery crime thriller series based on the author’s bestselling book series. The series sees Tobias Santelmann lead in the cast in the title role as Harry Hole, and follows the brilliant, but tormented detective as he works to track down […]
Benedict Cumberbatch replacing Tom Hardy in Blood on Snow
Benedict Cumberbatch has joined Blood on Snow with THR breaking the news that the actor will step into the role once set for Tom Hardy. Aaron Taylor-Johnson leads No Time To Die director Cary Fukunaga’s crime thriller alongside Cumberbatch, Eva Green, Emma Laird, and Ben Mendelsohn. Taylor-Johnson stars as a hitman/fixer named Olav, who is […]
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Tom Hardy to star in Jo Nesbo adaptation Blood on Snow
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Tom Hardy are set to team with No Time to Die director Cary Fukunaga for Blood on Snow, an adaptation of the bestselling crime novel from Jo Nesbo. The film, which is being shopped to potential buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival, will be set in 1970s Olso and see Taylor-Johnson […]
Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal re-team for HBO’s The Son from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy
Jake Gyllenhaal will be re-teaming with his Prisoners and Enemy director Denis Villeneuve for The Son, an HBO limited series adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. The Son is “a tale of vengeance set amid Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption.” It focuses on Sonny Lofthus, “an escaped convict: an opioid […]
Ben Stiller to direct Oscar Issac in adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s London
This news is something of a refreshing mystery, but what little we do know about London is that Ben Stiller is set to direct Oscar Issac in an adaptation of the short-story by Headhunters writer Jo Nesbo. The Hollywood Reporter say that Issac bought the rights to the story via his Mad Gene Media company, […]
The Snowman director Tomas Alfredson gets very candid about what went wrong with the film
The film adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman is releasing this week in theaters, and the critical reaction hasn’t been pretty. Our own review had this to say: “How it is a film of this magnitude could fall at every hurdle is to be beholden, and one can only presume Alfredson, in years to come, […]
Second Opinion – The Snowman (2017)
The Snowman, 2017. Directed by Tomas Alfredson Starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonas Karlsson, Toby Jones, Val Kilmer and J.K. Simmons SYNOPSIS: Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman. For the third time this year, Michael Fassbender has delivered a decent […]
Tobey Maguire to make directorial debut with Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow
THR is reporting that Tobey Maguire will make his directorial debut with Blood on Snow, an adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s 2015 crime thriller novel, which is being produced by Material and Grey Matter Productions. Blood on Snow “centers on Olav, a contract killer in Oslo who, when instructed to kill his adulterous wife, falls into […]
