A new trailer for Michael Fassbender’s upcoming thriller The Snowman has been released.

The project is based on the book by Jo Nesbø and directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let The Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).

The cast also includes Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer, Toby Jones, J.K. Simmons, Charlotte Gainsburg, Chloë Sevigny and Sofia Helin.

Snowman

Source: Universal

‘The Snowman’

Fassbender plays Harry Hole, an idiosyncratic detective who investigates the murder of a woman who might be the target of a serial killer who strikes with the first snowfall of the year.

Working Title’s Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan produce alongside Robyn Slovo, and the Swedish producer is Piodor Gustafsson of Another Park Film. Working Title founders Bevan and Fellner acquired the rights to Nesbø’s bestseller in 2011.

Executive producers are Nesbø, Niclas Salomonsson, Martin Scorsese, Alfredson, Liza Chasin and Amelia Granger. Universal are the distributing.

The Snowman was the first major international film to benefit from Norway’s tax incentive confirmed in January 2016.

The film was shot entirely on location in Norway in the cities of Oslo and Bergen and the area of Rjukan.