Tobias Santelmann (Exit, The Arctic Convoy) and Joel Kinnaman (Altered Carbon, The Suicide Squad) are set to star in Jo Nesbo’s Detective Gap, Netflix’s upcoming Nordic noir collection primarily based on Nesbo’s collection of best-selling crime novels.
Santelmann will play the obsessive however introverted murder detective Harry Gap, with Kinnaman as Tom Waaler, a corrupt cop and Gap’s long-time nemesis throughout the Oslo police division. Pia Tjelta (Made in Oslo, State of Happiness) will play Gap’s romantic associate Rakel Fauke.
The primary season on Detective Gap is predicated on Nesbo’s novel The Satan’s Star, the fifth in his Harry Gap collection, which have bought tens of tens of millions of copies worldwide. Nesbo is adapting his personal work for the Norweigan collection. Netflix is hoping this model of Harry Gap will make audiences overlook The Snowman, the ill-fated 2017 Nesbo adaptation that was a field workplace disappointment and launched a thousand mocking memes.
In an announcement, Santelmann stated he was “very a lot conscious of the large world fan base and the tens of millions of readers who love the character” of Harry Gap. “For me, it’s about making a Harry that individuals can each acknowledge and be shocked by.”
Commenting on the casting of Santelmann, Nesbo famous that he guessed “all readers of the e book collection have their very own imaginative and prescient of what Harry Gap would seem like, and they need to be allowed to maintain that. [But] we’ll create a Harry that’s primarily based not solely on the books however on the actor Tobias Santelmann and everybody concerned on this venture – each in entrance and behind the digicam. For me, storytelling isn’t about serving folks what they assume they need, however what they didn’t know they wished.”
Universial Footage-owned Working Title, who produced The Snowman, are additionally on board for the Detective Gap collection. Oystein Karlsen (Exit) will direct. Harry Gap is ready to start principal images on Might 23 on location in Oslo.