Friday, January 06, 2012

Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q Mysteries to be Adapted for Film and Television

The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Adaptations of Danish crime novelist Jussi Adler-Olsen's first four titles in his "Department Q" series are being planned for film and television.

First up will be The Keeper of Lost Causes (Danish title: Kvinden i buret), which introduces homicide detective and cold case investigator Carl Mørck. Louise Vesth will write the screenplay. Denmark's Zentropa is producing with Danish commercial channel TV2 and German public broadcaster ZDF as partners. Production is expected to begin Fall 2012 with the first film premiering about a year later.

In our review of the book, we called this police procedural a "fine start to this series". The case involves a missing woman, a politician who vanished without a trace five years earlier. The world assumes she's dead. Mørck's colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. "The pieces of the puzzle are all in the five-year-old file, and it's a pleasure following Mørck along as he puts them together." (Mysterious Reviews, 2011.)

The Keeper of Lost Causes — which was published as Mercy in the UK — is the only book in this series translated into English to date. The other three titles are Fasandræberne, Flaskepost fra P (which won the 2010 Harald Mogensen Prisen for best thriller and the 2010 Glass Key Award for best Scandanavian crime novel), and Journal 64.

(Related article: The Hollywood Reporter.)

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