Martin Scorsese Set For ‘The Snowman’
Less than a month agoMartin Scorsesestarted to show public interestin directing a film based onJo Nesbø’s thriller novelThe Snowman. (He has been circling the project for longer than that.) The book is one of nine Nesbø novels featuring Harry Hole, a non-traditional, alcoholic, loose-cannon police detective. InThe Snowman, “a son finds his mother’s pink scarf wrapped around the neck of a ominous looking snowman. Hole realizes she is the latest victim of a serial killer.”
Scorsese’s interest in the film is good news for those who like big-budget adaptations of brutal police thrillers, and not so good news for anyone who hoped that, afterHugo, Scorsese might finally make his long-planned Jesuit dramaSilenceor the mob movieThe Irishman.
Now we’ve got confirmation thatThe Snowmanwill indeed be directed by Scorsese.
THRsays that Nesbø and production company Working Title have confirmed that Scorsese will direct the film. Part of the final deal was approval from Nesbø, who also agreed not to insist that the film be shot in the Norwegian city of Oslo, where the book is set. (Though the film could end up being shot there; it just isn’t a stipulation of the deal that itmustbe.)Matthew Michael Carnahan(World War Z) is writing. We don’t know what changes will be made to the story, and we don’t know if this will definitely be Scorsese’s next film, though that’s how it looks right now.
Here’s the book description:
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.
