We know about the filming of Jo Nesbø’s “Snowman” – NRK

Starring Michael Fassbender is already in place in Oslo. Monday, he has his first day on the job as “Harry Hole.”

It’s not a particularly pleasurable universe Fassbender going into: Harry Hole is known as a lone wolf with its own moral compass. He struggles with alcoholism, can be destructive and merciless, but is always a sparkling police investigator.

In the seventh book of Harry Hole, ‘The Snowman’, finds the investigator an alarming similarities in old cases of disappearance – married women have disappeared the same day as the first snow has fallen. And Hole are even part of the case when he receives an anonymous letter signed “The Snowman.”

A glimpse before the premiere in 2017

KRIM: The book has sold 28 million worldwide and 550,000 in Norway.

Now that the snow and cold has settled like a lid over capital, conditions should be conducive to recreate the dark crime world of Jo Nesbø book.

With a film crew of around 150 pieces and 1,700 extras, the residents of Bergen, Oslo and Rjukan to notice that Snowman gets to film. Maybe you get a glimpse behind the scenes before the premiere date, which is currently set at Friday, 13 October 2017.

This is some of what we know about the filming, including through conversations with people involved in movie and search in official documents from the City of Oslo and the Ministry of Culture:

The big names

• The popular actor has a tight schedule: The day before he came to Oslo , he concluded filming for the upcoming movie “Assassin’s Creed” , based on a famous video game series.

• The film is also the Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson . She will play Katrine Bratt, a young police officer from Bergen, who will have a central role in the film. Ferguson is perhaps best known for having played Ilsa Faust in “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”.

• The legend behind “Taxi Driver,” “The raging bull,” “Goodfellas “” The Departed “and The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese , was appropriate as a director on Snowman. In 2013 it became clear that he resigned from directing job, but since then has been involved as a producer.

has watched: Director Tomas Alfredson has several times been to Oslo to scout for locations for the movie ‘The Snowman’, which has recording start on 18 January.

Photo: Anette Torjusen / NRK

• The director is Swedish Tomas Alfredson , known for “Let the Right One In” and the film adaptation John le Carré ‘Tinker Tailor Solider Spy “.
• Jo Nesbø are away on holiday at the beginning of the recording period. It’s screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan who has written the screenplay for the Snowman.

Shooting Locations

• The recording will take place in Oslo, Bergen and at Rjukan . In the period 01.10. March planning Universal Pictures to make recordings at Rjukan. It should also be shot scenes Notodden Airport , writes Rjukan Arbeiderblad.

• After Rjukan carrying it to Bergen, before recording again continues in Oslo, where the also be terminated.

• Documents from Oslo municipality reveals that it played a major scene in Oslo City Hall. It is given permission to film in the town hall banqueting rooms, including Main City Hall.

• It should also be made for admission to the movie Holmenkollen Ekebergåsen and Harry Holes Master space “Schroder” at St. Hanshaugen in Oslo. NRK are also visited by film crew.

• props for the film has asked to borrow orange tents of Civil Defence . They are used for recording of police investigation scenes. “It is desired more tents if possible,” according to a request sent to the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning.

SCHRØDER: restaurant St. Hanshaugen is a regular in roma series about Harry Hole. And get of course a role in the movie ‘The Snowman’.

Photo: Haakon Mosvold Larsen / Rolf Petter Olaisen / NTB Scanpix / NRK

Norway’s largest production

• It has circulated various figures on how many people are involved in the filming. According to production itself there are around 100 Norwegians, 40-50 British film workers and 10 Swedes. Just about every technical manager is foreign, while all the crew around the individual Conservation Director is Norwegian.

• A large number of extras will participate in the film. In all there are 1700 extras. At peak should 300 extras be included in the same scene.

• – This is clearly the biggest we’ve had here in Norway ever, said film commissioner Truls Kontny NRK.

I hop on a plane tomorrow and travel to Norway. Where we start with ‘The Snowman’ next week. It’s really crowded for the time.

Michael Fassbender to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday 14 January

Benevolence government

• For several years, the Norwegian film industry drooling after getting the recording of Jo Nesbø’s novel ‘The Snowman’ to Norway. Film company Universal has been met with both money and goodwill from official sources here at home.

• In May, Norway a so-called incentive scheme for film industry. This means that the Norwegian authorities take a portion of the bill and pay back some of the production costs of a film production. The scheme provides production companies back 25 percent of recording costs incurred in Norway.

• The government has set the 45 million to the scheme, but it is still unclear whether the “Snowman” gets the whole pot. It is also unknown how much your budget to “Snowman” movie is.

• In addition to the 1, 5 million that Oslo has contributed, as have Tinn industrial fund appropriated NOK 200 000 for the filming of ‘The Snowman, “writes Rjukan Arbeiderblad. Telemark county is built with 200 000 , while Telemark Development spitting into 400 000 , the newspaper said.

• Oslo Municipality has several inquiries to the production company Working Title and Universal film company stressed how they can be of help during the shooting. The municipality has offered parking , storage space in warehouses, rental cars , transport and the ability to cordon off areas under production of ‘The Snowman’.

• It sends the Minister of Culture their wishes:

Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender

Photo: NEIL HALL / Reuters

• Birth in Germany in 1977, grew up in Ireland, living in London.
• Got his big breakthrough in Quentin Tarantino film “Inglourious Basterds”.
• Was in 2014 nominated for an Oscar for her role as slave owner Edward Epps in “12 Years a Slave”.
• Oscar current role as Apple founder Steve Jobs, in the movie of the same name.
• Was also Golden Globe-nominated for the same role, but Leonardo DiCaprio ended up winning for “The Revenant”.
• Is together with Swedish Alicia Vikander.
• Will play Harry Hole in Jo Nesbø ‘The Snowman’.

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