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Yellow Bird Producing Jo Nesbo-Created International Drama ‘Occupied’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 3:23am PDTTags: Jo Nesbo, Occupied, Yellow Bird

Millennium Trilogy producer Yellow Bird is embarking on a 10-part original series based on an idea by bestselling Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø. International drama Occupied is a political thriller set in a not so distant future where Russia has staged a “silk-glove” invasion of Norway to officially secure the oil import for the rest of the world. The series looks at what happens to a nation under such an invasion.

Developed by Yellow Bird and Nesbø, Occupied will be co-produced with Zodiak Media’s French drama outfit GTV for Norway’s NRK and French/German channel Arte. Erik Skoldbjaerg, writer/director of the original Insomnia and director of Prozac Nation, will helm the first two episodes. Norwegian writer Harald Rosenloew Eeg is also on the the English-, Norwegian- and Russian-language project. READ MORE »

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NBC Orders Legal Drama Pilot ‘I Am Victor’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 11, 2013 @ 5:21pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, I Am Victor, Jo Nesbo, Katie Jacobs
Nellie Andreeva

NBC has given a pilot order to drama I Am Victor, from former … Read More »

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NBC Developing Legal Drama From Hot Author Jo Nesbo & Producer Katie Jacobs

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 13, 2012 @ 10:30am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, I Am Victor, Jo Nesbo, Katie Jacobs, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

Former House executive producer Katie Jacobs has teamed with bestselling Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbo for I Am Victor, a drama at NBC. The project, based on Nesbo’s book, has some of House‘s DNA as it is described as “House as a divorce attorney”. Mark Goffman is writing, with Nesbo, Jacobs and Television 360′s Daniel Rappaport and Meghan Lyvers and Niclas Salomonsson executive producing for Universal TV, the studio behind long-running Fox medical drama House. Read More »

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Warner Bros Wins Auction For Jo Nesbo Novel ‘The Son’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 9, 2012 @ 9:27am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Jo Nesbo, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

Jo Nesbo The Son Warner Bros MovieEXCLUSIVE: In an auction that had keen interest and bids from multiple studios, Warner Bros acquired screen rights to The Son, the latest thriller by bestselling Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbo. Kevin McCormick’s WB-based Langley Park will produce.

The novel, which will be published by Knopf in 2014, focuses on a young man who is in prison because he took the rap for crimes that others committed. The thriller starts as the young man’s father, who is said to be a corrupt cop, commits suicide. When the son learns that his father was actually an honest man who was murdered, he escapes to avenge the killing. Along the way, he also begins to rectify the crimes to which he confessed. Nesbo and Niclas Salomonsson will be exec producers. Read More »

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Summit Sets Sacha Gervasi To Adapt Novel ‘Headhunters’ By Jo Nesbo

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 14, 2011 @ 6:01pm PSTTags: Headhunters, Jo Nesbo, Summit Entertainment
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sacha Gervasi has been set by Summit Entertainment to adapt Headhunters, the English language adaptation of the Jo Nesbo novel.  Marianne Gray, Ole Sondberg, and Berna Levin will produce via the Yellow Bird production banner. Yellow Bird produced the … Read More »

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Scandinavian Crime Novels Hot In H’wood

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 7:05am PDTTags: Headhunters, Jo Nesbo, Summit Entertainment, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Yellow Bird

EXCLUSIVE: An American version of Norwegian bestselling crime author Jo Nesbo’s new TV series Occupied is being talked about. That’s what I’m told by Swedish producer Marianne Gray, who gave the keynote speech at the Film London Production Finance Market this morning. American actors and a U.S. director are also being considered for the 8-episode Norwegian TV series, which is awaiting a green light from state broadcaster NRK. Then there’s Nesbo’s novel Headhunters, which played at the BFI London Film Festival last night. The U.S. version is being adapted by Summit Entertainment as a $30M-40M movie and is now out to writers. Working Title is separately developing a feature film version of The Snowman, another bestseller by Nesbo whose books starring detective Harry Hole have sold 9 million copies worldwide.

There are parallels here to the way Hollywood has been got for Steig Larsson’s crime novels. Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which Yellow Bird made into a feature film, has been remade by Sony and David Fincher. The Swedish version has grossed $104 million worldwide — $10 million of that in the U.S. alone, which is almost unheard of for a subtitled film. The Stockholm-based Yellow Bird also made TV versions of the other two books and Music Box released them as feature films. Then there’s the original Swedish TV version of local detective Wallander, which the BBC has remade starring Kenneth Branagh. Yellow Bird co-produced the UK version with Left Bank Pictures too. Its own $5 million feature-film adaptation of Nesbo’s Headhunters, about a thieving corporate headhunter who steals a client’s valuable painting, has been picked up by Magnolia for U.S. release later this year. Gray revealed that Nesbo may write a sequel to his original Headhunters novel. Occupied is set in the near future: Russia has invaded Norway’s oil fields and the country is under occupation. Read More »

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In Other Deals: French Paper Taps Marion Cotillard For Batflick; Javier Bardem Wins Goya; Broadway Spider-Man Gets SNL Parody, More Bad Press

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 14, 2011 @ 6:40am PSTTags: Anne Hathaway, Bono, Chris Nolan, Christian Bale, Inception, Jo Nesbo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Magnolia Pictures, Marion Cotillard, Morten Tyldum, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Stieg Larsson, The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

French newspaper Le Figaro reported Marion Cotillard is set for Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. We’ll get some clarity today, but the move makes sense given that most everyone in that cast but Anne Hathaway (Catwoman) worked with Nolan … Read More »

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Working Title Cracks Harry Hole Mystery Series With ‘The Snowman’ Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 14, 2010 @ 11:53am PDTTags: Book-to-Movie, Jo Nesbo, Movies, Working Title Films
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Working Title Films has landed screen rights to The Snowman, the Jo Nesbo novel that is the latest in a bestselling detective series that has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. The book is currently at the top of the UK bestseller lists and will be published by Knopf in the US next spring. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce, and the author and Niclas Salomonsson will be executive producers. The author, who has turned down numerous film offers for the book, was repped in the deal by Sylvie Rabineau and Salomonsson. The book is set on Oslo and is the latest in a mystery series revolving around detective Harry Hole. A woman is missing and her pink scarf turns up as an accessory that has been wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman that someone has built nearby. As the detective investigates, it appears it might be the work of a serial killer. It’s the seventh novel in the Harry Hole series for Nesbo. Read More »

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