With Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson already confirmed, director Tomas Alfredson is busy adding other cast members for his latest. He now has Charlotte Gainsbourg in talks for crime thriller The Snowman.
The new film has a script by Matthew Michael Carnahan adapted from one of writer Jo Nesbø’s bestselling series of Harry Hole novels. The Oslo cop, a boozy, fags-and-fatalism maverick in the best traditions of movie ‘tecs like Jake Gittes and Popeye Doyle, is in his early ‘40s in the books and an outsider in his own department. In the story, he’s investigating a missing persons case launched when a woman’s pink scarf is found wrapped around the neck of an ominous-looking snowman.
Neither Ferguson’s role nor what part Gainsbourg might play is mentioned in Deadline’s report on the talks, but Alfredson appears to be building another quality cast. Gainsbourg was last seen in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac films and has a slightly different film arriving next year as she’s part of the cast for Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi sequel Independence Day: Resurgence, which unleashes its chaos upon us on June 24.