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#The killing danish seasons tv#
There’s a lot to work with in 20 hours of TV so expect a long, though not hard to read I hope, book. So Lund and Meyer’s battle becomes so much harder because all the people who should help them – their colleagues, politicians, people in schools – lie for their own advantage instead of helping find out who killed Nanna. For me, it’s the story of what happens when a society that’s supposed to care doesn’t. It’s not so much a crime epic as a moral tragedy for our times. The original Killing is stunning TV on several fronts – the acting, direction, music, the length and complexity of the story, and characters like Lund and Theis and Pernille. How are you interpreting the setting, characters and storyline? Killing fans should expect some big shocks at times, though the book is very much based on the original and doesn’t try to turn it into something else. So the narrative needs to change to suit the literary medium – and does. I did the project on the understanding that it was my book and mine alone.
#The killing danish seasons series#
How close to the series will your novelisation be, and how far can you roam? I’m writing a book based on the Danish series alone. I’m afraid my limited brainpower doesn’t extend to holding two massive TV series in my head at the same time so I haven’t watched the US version. I was in Italy when the original Killing aired so I didn’t see it until Macmillan approached me and said I was their first choice to write the novels.
Even though it’s only due out in May, here at Crime Fiction Lover were so excited by the news we were compelled to contact David and ask him about the books. To the rescue comes crime author David Hewson, chosen by Pan Macmillan to rewrite The Killing in novel format. Many of us were attracted to it because of its Scandinavian crime fiction credentials, but disappointed to find that it wasn’t based on a series of books like Wallander or The Millennium Trilogy. Have you been watching series two of The Killing on BBC4? Maybe you saw the first Danish series which took place in Copenhagen, or the American adaptation set in Seattle? With a plot revolving around a missing teenage girl, how her Muslim schoolteacher is suspected of killing her, and how all of this is intertwined with an upcoming mayoral election, it’s a fantastic TV series that has won fans around the world.
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