Zentropa prepares Jussi Adler-Olsen adaptation
by Annika Pham
Denmark’s Zentropa and Nordisk Film have teamed up with Germany’s Network Movie and ZDF to produce a crime series based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s best-selling novels about Department Q.
Adler-Olsen’s first book in the series, The Woman in the Cage (2007), has been sold for publication in 21 countries, including the US. Zentropa acquired the film rights to the book series when the second book, The Pheasant Killers, was published in 2008.
“I hardly ever read books but during a rainy summer holiday in Denmark, I decided to read the first two books. Halfway through, I knew that I just had to own the film rights to these books that combine a rare and sophisticated combination of crime and humour,” said Zentropa’s managing director Peter Aalbæk Jensen.
Network Movie, ZDF Enterprises, ZDF and Nordisk Film previously worked together on the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy and the Swedish blockbuster Easy Money [+see also:
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