The Snowman, Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbo's seventh book in the series about detective Harry Hole, was recently released in the U.S., after being a bestseller in Britain, where he has been compared to another Scandinavian crime writer, the late Stieg Larsson.
Well, Martin Scorsese is in early talks to direct the adaptation of Nesbo's mystery novel.
Matthew Michael Carnahan, who wrote State of Play for Working Title, as well as upcoming World War Z and The Kingdom, is scripting adaptation which could very well serve as a jumping off point for a new mystery franchise.
Nesbo was a professional soccer player, stock broker and rock musician before he started writing crime novels. His another popular Headhunters novel will become an English-language feature film as Summit Entertainment has picked up the rights to make the bestseller into a movie.
Soon after finishing the family adventure flick Hugo, Scorsese is set to direct an adaptation of another novel, Silence and also has several other films in development like The Irishman, The Gambler and Sinatra. So The Snowman is just another potential project for Oscar-winning director.
The synopsis for the novel about antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, reads:
Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother's pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he's received and the disappearance of Jonas's mother—and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised—and constantly revised—by the killer.Fiercely suspenseful, its characters brilliantly realized, its atmosphere permeated with evil, The Snowman is the electrifying work of one of the best crime writers of our time.
That sounds interesting. The Snowman is intellectually satisfying plot with many twists and turns that Scorsese might be inspired to direct.
Students from The National Film and Television School have created spine-chilling video trailers to promote four exceptional books – The Snowman is one of them:
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The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
