The adaptation of Jo Nesbo‘s novel The Snowman may have found its lead in Michael Fassbender. The film version of the book, the 11th in the famous Harry Hole mysteries, is set to be brought to the screen by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).
The film, which will be directed and adapted by Alfredson (along with Soren Sveistrup), is set up at Working Title Films, and will be produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
Here’s the book’s synopsis.
It is November in Oslo and the first snow of the year has fallen. Birte Becker comes home from work and praises the snowman her husband and son have made in the garden. But they haven’t made a snowman. As the family stand by the sitting room window looking out in amazement at the snowman, the son notices that it is facing the house. The black eyes are staring at the window. At them.
Detective Inspector Harry Hole receives an anonymous letter signed “The Snowman.” Later he finds an alarming common thread in all the old disappearance cases. Married women go missing the day the first snow falls. That same night Sylvia Pedersen is fighting her way through the first snow in a forest outside Oslo. She knows she is running for her life, but she doesn’t know what from. Nor does she know what lies ahead. Fortunately.
Fassbender is in talks to play Hole, which could obviously lead to further adaptations of Nesbo’s novels should The Snowman become successful.
Fassbender, who is currently shooting the Assassin’s Creed movie, will next be seen in Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, which closes the London Film Festival next month.
