Award-winning Sandstone author Jorn Lier Horst has partnered
with Cinenord and the Danish production company Good Company Films to bring
Chief Inspector William Wisting to life. The series will be based on the five
novels which Sandstone Press has published: Dregs, Closed for Winter,
The Hunting Dogs, The Caveman and Ordeal, plus the novel
preceding Dregs. The budget is estimated to be around 100 million
kronor, roughly £8 million.
Ole
Sondegard of Good Company Films is the man behind both the British and Swedish
version of Wallander, the Millennium trilogy and the Beck series.
Recording will begin in late autumn of 2017, and the character of William
Wisting has yet to be cast. ‘The finished series will have English subtitles,
and will be sold internationally. Lier Horst is already an internationally
bestselling author. The Wisting series has been sold to 25 countries, and has
sold over 1 million copies in Norway alone.
Jorn Lier
Horst says, ‘There are good people who are going to work with this. I look
forward to seeing William Wisting come to life.’ The series will be a
character-driven thriller with Wisting in the center, aided by the police team.
Central to the series is also the relationship between William Wisting and
daughter Line, who works as a criminal reporter. Lier Horst has been praised
for his detailed and credible portrayal of both the police and of
journalism. Key to the series is a sense of place: ‘It is important that
action takes place in Larvik Stavern area of Norway. The place is a
character in itself,’ says Lier Horst.
Sandstone
Press Managing Director Robert Davidson says, ‘I am thrilled to hear
this news about the William Wisting Series. Not only is Jorn Lier Horst one of
the hardest working authors in the business, and one of the most talented, he
is also a supremely decent guy. We have been working with Jorn, and his
Norwegian publisher Gyldendal, and translator Anne Bruce, for five titles now
and all of these will be dramatised. The viewing public has a great treat in
store, as has the reading public whose attention is going to be drawn to the
amazing writing of Jorn Lier Horst even more strongly.’
Sandstone Press holds World English Language rights for
their five Jorn Lier Horst titles. Ordeal has been sold to St Martin’s
Press in North America and agreement has been reached with Affirm Press for all
five titles in ANZ. Sandstone Press is represented by David Segrue Ltd.
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