New Swedish Teaser Poster for Snabba Cash II

A new Swedish teaser poster for Snabba Cash II has been released by the studio (right; click for slightly larger version).

We had originally read that the film was adapted from the final two books in the "Stockholm Noir Trilogy" by crime novelist Jens Lapidus … though we could have been wrong about this. Indeed, if our Swedish-to-English translator is right, this second film is set a couple of years after the events of the first and features the same characters but a new storyline. We've also read that a third film may be planned, with a screenplay to be written by Lapidus. (Snabba Cash, released in 2006, and based on the first book in the trilogy, is coming to theaters in the US this July. And speaking of that first book, it is being published in English in the US in April as Easy Money; it is on our TBR stack.)

Snabba Cash II stars Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) as Johan "JW" Westlund, who is drawn into the world of organized crime for the money to support a lifestyle well above his means.

Directed by Babak Najafi from a screenplay co-written by Peter Birro and Maria Karlsson, the film opens in Sweden on August 17th, 2012. Watch a trailer for the film below.