Tomas Alfredson to replace Scorsese as director of Jo Nesbø's Snowman

Acclaimed Swedish film-maker is to direct the seventh book in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole crime detective series



Xan Brooks meets Tomas Alfredson

Tomas Alfredson is to direct The Snowman, an adaptation of the seventh book in Norwegian author Jo Nesbø's series of crime novels about hardboiled Oslo detective Harry Hole.

Variety reports the acclaimed Swedish director of Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is stepping into shoes recently vacated by Martin Scorsese. It was reported in 2011 that the Oscar-winning American veteran film-maker would direct The Snowman, but he will now take an executive producer's role.

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