In The Search Of The Next Stieg Larsson (Cannes 2011)

Many Scandinavian authors seek to promote their products in Cannes, hoping to emulate the success of the author of the series "Millennium."

CANNES - The worldwide success of the Millennium films - $ 175 million worldwide not talk about David Fincher American remake - was in Cannes, buyers have difficulty finding a Scandinavian crime machine to replace the end of the millennium author Stieg Larsson.

Some of the major candidates - including Norway and Sweden already Nesbø crime queens Lackberg Camilla and Lisa Marklund - walk to the Croisette this week to promote changes in their top-selling coolers. These films - Headhunters, German children and Nobel last - some of the Scandinavian crime dramas to hit the market post-millennium, so anticipation is high.

Not in Cannes, but still listed in the North is two Jens Lapidus see if Stockholm Black trilogy created successful film Easy Money, has taken the U.S. by The Weinstein Co. and a U.S. remake by Warner Bros. and Lars Kepler, which hypnotist the first book in a planned series of eight books, is being adapted for the screen by the Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom Hollywood.

Apart from geography, what these writers share with Larsson and causing buyers to drool, they bring with them proven franchise with books that are sold in dozens of territories. Marklund series about tabloid crime reporter Annika Bengtzon has sold about 10 million copies. Nesbo novels, including those with alcoholic Oslo detective Harry Hole, which is available in 40 countries. Läckberg books of Murder Fjällbacka, including German child has moved 8 million copies worldwide.

Läckberg just returned from a U.S. tour in Cannes, which is pre-sales TrustNordisk Fjällbacka Murders, which is scheduled in two feature films and television series based on the adventures of the author and small-town crime solver Erica Falck.

"I know everyone is looking for the next Stieg Larsson. Well, I'm available," he joked Läckberg, adding that the success of the Millennium "opened the door for Scandinavian writers. Suddenly we are on the map. "

The Norwegian writer Jo dislikes Nesbø Larsson roof, but the link has not hurt the Headhunters, which had its premiere at Cannes market on Monday. Magnolia pre-purchased the U.S. rights to the story of a corporate headhunter and art thief secret after seeing a promo for five minutes in Berlin in February.

For his own most successful franchise Harry Hole Nesbo signed an agreement with Working Title for a version of the recent book The Snowman.

"For a writer of detective novels they had the best ground" Nesbo told the Hollywood Reporter. "They said:" We produced Fargo "I said:" I listen to .. "

Such is the weight scribes Scandinavian crime these days that Nesbo was able to refute the right of veto over the script writer and director for the film Snowman, which is still under development.

But Jenny Gilbertsson, the producer who is adapting Annika Marklund Bengtzon books to the big screen, cautioned against expectations of these new authors to duplicate the impressive success of Stieg Larsson.

"The authors are very successful and are very good and the Millennium has significantly improved the Scandinavian market for international crime," said Gilbertsson. "But these are all very different writers and Stieg Larsson, the way they told a story, and his creation of the almost autistic hacker Lisbeth Salander - was unique, not only in the murder of Sweden, but throughout the world."