Jo Nesbo's crime novel, The Snowman, is heading to the big screen in the hands of Mr Martin Scorsese...
With Martin Scorsese's latest film, Hugo, about to hit cinemas, we've now got an idea of what he's got coming up in the near future. For it's been confirmed that Martin he will direct an adaptation of Norwegian author Jo Nesbo’s bestselling novel The Snowman for Working Title.
Scorsese had been keen on the project for some time, but was waiting for approval from the author, whose deal with regards to the rights of the adaptation meant that he had final say over who would direct the adaptation. Not that it would be likely that a director of the calibre of Scorsese would be the kind of person you’d turn down, particularly as the novel is of the crime genre which Scorsese is more than comfortable with.
The Snowman is the seventh in the author’s series of Harry Hole novels, which feature a Norwegian detective who’s fond of booze and dislikes authority, who happens to be investigating the murder of a woman who’s the latest victim of a serial killer. The clue leading Hole on the trail is a scarf found wrapped around the neck of a snowman.
The adaptation will be in the English language and as such it’s unlikely that it’ll have the Oslo setting of the source novel. Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z) is attached to write the script, but beyond that it’s early days for the project. It’s unclear as to how this will fit in to the director’s schedule, that includes Silence, which is currently in pre-production, and his long awaited Frank Sinatra biopic.
More on The Snowman when we get it. You can do your Aled Jones jokes now if you want.
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