The film adaptation of the novel “The Snowman” by Jo Nesbo will be directed by Tomas Alfredson! Soren Sveistrup will co-draft the screenplay alongside Alfredson.

The project was originally planned by Martin Scorsese but fell through. Alfredson is most known for his work on Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. 

The seventh entry in Nesbo’s “Harry Hole” series, “The Snowman” is officially described as follows:

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.

Scorsese remains aboard the project as an executive producer alongside Nesbo and Niclas Salomonsson as well as Working Title’s Liza Chasin and Amelia Granger.