Headhunters is well written with a lot of action after a slow start. Who soon finds himself as the target of a deadly hunt. Greve is also the owner of an expensive painting.

One day he meets the perfect candidate, Clas Greve, for an open position in a technology company. “It’s impossible to enjoy a movie from your own story, it’s like asking a gynecologist do you get turned on when you are at work.Roger Brown is the most successful headhunter of Norway. Meanwhile the next Hole book The Phantom is published in Norway next month, and Headhunters opens in August.ĭid he enjoy Headhunters? “I can’t watch it like a movie,” he says. Nesbo is an executive producer on the project, but would not disclose who is on his wish list to direct.

A year later they phoned back and said that they would do the deal on those terms.” They explained that it didn’t work that way in film production, and I said I was aware of that but I was just telling them what it would take. “Then they asked what it would take to sell the rights and I said that I would have to decide who was going to direct it or write the script. I was afraid a film would steal my hero not just for me but for my readers.” I don’t know how they knew it was one of my favourite movies but I took the meeting with them and listened to them but said that while I was flattered by their interest, I didn’t want to sell the rights to the series while I was still writing them. “Their opening line was that they had made Fargo. Two years ago, Working Title Films approached him about buying the seventh Hole book The Snowman. Selling movie rights to Harry Hole on the other hand was not an easy decision for Nesbo. “They had trouble with the last line of the movie - the punchline - so I wrote the last line of the movie,” he says.

Nesbo had no creative input into the film apart from one contribution. “So when they came to me with this huge offer for a movie deal, I said, yes, let’s do it.” “I created a foundation to fight illiteracy in the third world and decided that all the royalties from the book would go to it,” explains Nesbo. The movie about Norway’s most successful headhunter who is also an art thief screens her for buyers is a standalone story and not part of Nesbo’s world-famous series following police detective Harry Hole.

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