We’ll have to wait a while for it, but it sounds like it will be worth it.
Fans of the many excellent offerings in the crime genre on Netflix will have another series to add to their list in 2018 with the arrival of Störst av Allt (Quicksand), an adaptation of the international best-selling thriller novel.
On Thursday, Netflix revealed that the series will be written by Camilla Ahlgren, the head writer of The Bridge, a gripping Scandinavian series based on the discovery of a body on the Øresund Bridge connecting the cities of Copenhagen and Malmo and the countries of Denmark and Sweden.
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Störst av Allt (Quicksand) is based on the best-selling novel by Malin Persson Giolito, which has been published in 26 countries and was voted Nordic Crime Novel of the year in 2016.
When a mass shooting takes place at a prep school in Stockholm’s wealthiest suburb, a normal high school student, Maja Norberg, finds herself on trial for murder. When the events of that tragic day are revealed, so too are the private details about her relationship with Sebastian Fagerman and his dysfunctional family.
The series will be produced by Pontus Edgren (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared) and will go into production in 2018.
Commenting on the series, Head writer Camilla Ahlgren said: “It is both a great honour and challenge to work with FLX and Netflix on Störst av Allt (Quicksand). I want to tell this story from the main character Maja’s perspective; her story raises questions about guilt, responsibility, punishment and redemption. It holds a mirror up to our time whilst also serving as both a suspenseful thriller and a moving love story.”
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