Martin Scorsese set to Direct THE SNOWMAN
About a month ago we reported that director Martin Scorsese was looking at developing a big screen adaptation of Jo Nesbo's bestselling mystery novel The Snowman for Working Title. Today it's been confirmed that he will in fact take on the project. Nesbo had final approval on who would direct the film, and why would anyone turn down the chance to have Scorsese to turn their book into a feature film?
This is the seventh book in Nesbo's series about detective Harry Hole. The story is set in Oslo and focuses on "a missing woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman. As Hole begins his investigation, he discovers that the crime appears to be the work of a serial killer." The script for the project is being written by Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z), and produced by Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, while Nesbo and Niclas Salomonsson are serving as exec producers.
Socrsese is one of my favorite directors and this will be a great film project for him to take one. He just completed filming his 3D family film Hugu, which I'm sure will be good. But it's good to hear that he's ready to get back into the nitty gritty thrilling drama's again.
Here's a description from the book:
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf. Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menacing letter he received some months earlier. As Harry and his team delve into unsolved case files, they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. When a second woman disappears Harry's suspicions are confirmed: he is a pawn in a deadly game. For the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his turf, a killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity. A brilliant thriller with a pace that never lets up, The Snowman confirms Jo Nesbø's position as an international star of crime fiction.