I was afraid a film would steal my hero not just for me but for my readers.” I don’t know how they knew it was one of my favourite movies but I took the meeting with them and listened to them but said that while I was flattered by their interest, I didn’t want to sell the rights to the series while I was still writing them. “Their opening line was that they had made Fargo. Two years ago, Working Title Films approached him about buying the seventh Hole book The Snowman. Selling movie rights to Harry Hole on the other hand was not an easy decision for Nesbo. “They had trouble with the last line of the movie - the punchline - so I wrote the last line of the movie,” he says. Nesbo had no creative input into the film apart from one contribution. “So when they came to me with this huge offer for a movie deal, I said, yes, let’s do it.” “I created a foundation to fight illiteracy in the third world and decided that all the royalties from the book would go to it,” explains Nesbo. The movie about Norway’s most successful headhunter who is also an art thief screens her for buyers is a standalone story and not part of Nesbo’s world-famous series following police detective Harry Hole.
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