Joe Nesbo’s Headhunters is Getting a TV Series Adaptation
Jo Nesbo’s dark corporate thriller Headhunters, which was adapted in 2011 as a film starring Aksel Hennie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, is getting a TV series adaptation. Scandinavian actors Axel Boyum (Betrayed) and Martin Wallström (Mr. Robot) will star in the new Headhunters series, which is currently in production. The series will be set in 2002, before the events of Nesbo’s novel. “Headhunters will be a series in true Jo Nesbo spirit – a fast-paced mix of dark humor and thrills,” the series director Geir Henning Hopland said in a statement. Headhunters is currently shooting in Norway and set to premiere in 2022.
Excerpt and Cover Reveal from New Stephen Graham Jones Novel Don’t Fear the Reaper
Earlier this week, Crime Reads revealed the cover and an excerpt from Don’t Fear the Reaper, the upcoming 2022 sequel to Stephen Graham Jones’ bestselling novel My Heart is a Chainsaw. It’s December 12th, 2019, and Jade Daniels is released from prison when her conviction is overturned. Four years after her tumultuous senior year, she returns to the small town of Proofrock right at the same time serial killer Dark Mill South returns to complete his revenge killings. The novel is out from Saga Press in August 2022.
The Penguin Saves the World from Covid in Danny DeVito’s New Batman Comic
Danny DeVito, who played The Penguin in the 1992 film Batman Returns, has now written a new storyline for The Penguin in which he saves the world from Covid-19. Working with artist Dan Mora, DeVito has written the story “Bird Cat Love” for Gotham City Villains, an anthology celebrating Batman’s enemies published by DC Comics this past Tuesday in honor of the 80th anniversary year of the character’s creation. In this story, Penguin hatches up a plan to steal all the world’s vaccines from the pharmaceutical companies who are hoarding them. Then, he forcibly vaccinates everyone in the world. The Penguin does all of this with the help of Catwoman. “At first I was a little bit hesitant about doing the comic, but then I got into the fact that I’ve always been a big fan of Michelle Pfeiffer’s, and the Penguin obviously lusts after Catwoman. So I figured I’d put those two together, and then it was also in the middle of the pandemic, which we’re still fighting with. I thought it would be good if Penguin had a little bit of Robin Hood in him,” DeVito told Entertainment Weekly. “That’s what Oswald wants: Get everybody vaccinated and give science a chance to get ahead of this. The thing mutates, and if we don’t give the vaccine to people all over the world, it’s going to keep mutating.”
Alice Sebold’s Lucky Pulled from Publication Following Anthony Broadwater Exoneration
On Tuesday, Simon & Schuster’s Scribner imprint decided to pull Lucky from publication following the exoneration of Anthony Broadwater. Alice Sebold has also issued an apology to Broadwater, sixteen years after his conviction.