Department Q series to the Big Screen

There will be several more films made based on the Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q series, Copenhagen's cold case police unit.

The first movie which appeared last year was based on The Keeper of Lost Causes in the U.S. (Mercy in the UK). Shot in Danish, a subtitled version, will be available in the U.K. and U.S. Mystery Fanfare reported this here.

The series will now be turned into more films. The second book, entitled Fasandræberne (The Pheasant Killers) in Danish was translated as The Absent One in the U.S. Mikkel Norgaard, director of the first Department Q film, The Keeper of Lost Causes, will also direct The Absent One based on a screenplay from Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, co-writers on the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009).

Shooting for The Absent One began in January. Zentropa is producing the film. Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Angels & Demons) and Fares Fares (Zero Dark Thirty; Safe House) will reprise their starring roles as criminal investigators Carl and Assad in the new film.

The Keeper of Lost Causes: The Movie

The Danish film The Keeper of Lost Causes, based on the novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen, directed by Mikkel Norgaard and adapted to screen by Nikolaj Arcel, will open in Danish theatres October 3. No US distributor or release date yet, but check out the other countries, including the UK that will have it soon.

THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES is the first film in the upcoming franchise based on the bestselling book series about Department Q by author Jussi Adler-Olsen. TrustNordisk has already closed a large number of presales and currently THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES has been sold to more than 30 countries including key territories such as Germany, Benelux, Switzerland, Australia, UK and China.

Starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas (ANGELS & DEMONS, 2009) and Fares Fares (SAFE HOUSE, 2012 and ZERO DARK THIRTY, 2013) THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES tells the story of chief detective Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad who become involved in a five-year-old case concerning the mystery of politician Merete Lynggaard’s disappearance - a journey that takes them deep into the undercurrent of abuse and malice that lurks beneath the polished surface of Scandinavia.

THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES is directed by Mikkel Nørgaard (KLOWN, 2010) with screenplay by Nikolaj Arcel who wrote and directed A ROYAL AFFAIR (2012) and who also wrote the script for THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2009).

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