This endless series of sublime Scandinavian crime thrillers has a new hero: Jo Nesbø. Of course, Nesbø is hardly new news - he's sold nine million books around the world - but with an upcoming adaptation of Jackpot, the trailer for which has just landed, and Headhunters, he's fuelling a renaissance in the genre on the big screen too. Click below for a look.
brightcove.createExperiences();Our 'hero' is Oscar Svendsen (Kyrre Hellum), a factory worker who wakes up in a Swedish town to find himself surrounded by dead bodies and with a policeman's gun aimed at his chest. But how did it come to this? Oscar recounts the story of a big win on the football pools, a group of ex-cons and a whole lot of nastiness.
**Jackpot **is out on August 10. brightcove.createExperiences();