Jørn Lier Horst’s wintry detective novels will soon join the ongoing blizzard of streaming options.
Sundance Now, a streaming service owned by cable network AMC, will air Wisting, a 10-episode Swedish-Danish-German TV series based on Norwegian author Horst’s bestselling detective series, according to Deadline. The show will first appear on the service on Dec. 18.
The show stars Sven Nordin as the lead, Chief Inspector William Wisting, a Norwegian cop pursuing an American serial killer. However, the actor playing FBI agent Maggie Griffin will likely be more familiar to American audiences—Carrie-Anne Moss, who’s best known for her work in the 1999 film The Matrix and its sequels.
The first season of the series, which will also air on BBC Four, is based on The Hunting Dogs, which was published in the United States in 2014, and The Caveman, which appeared the following year.
AMC and Sundance Now have aired other notable, foreign-made book adaptations in the last year or so, including the BBC spy-thriller miniseries The Little Drummer Girl, based on the 1982 John Le Carré novel, and the Sky TV show A Discovery of Witches, from Deborah Harkness’ book series. (Kirkus took on the latter in a Screener column earlier this year.)
Moss has appeared in relatively few book adaptations over the course of her career, but they’ve been memorable ones. In 2000, for instance, she had a supporting turn in the Oscar-nominated film Chocolat, based on Joanne Harris’ 1999 novel, and in 2015, she appeared in a well-reviewed film version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, set in the modern day. She also played high-powered attorney Jeri Hogarth in the Marvel TV series Jessica Jones on Netflix, as well as related shows, such as Daredevil and Iron Fist.
David Rapp is the senior Indie editor.
