Exclusive: Swedish production outfit FLX has just acquired rights to the financial thriller book Fartblinda (‘Speed Blind’) by top business Swedish journalist Carolina Neurath (pictured) to adapt it into a TV series.
The deal signed with Swedish publisher Piratförlaget was announced yesterday.
The 31-year-old Neurath who works as financial journalist for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet has won numerous awards for her investigative reporting such as 'Stora Journalistpriset’ in 2012. Her first fiction novel Fartblinda published three weeks ago is inspired by her own experience and combines financial thriller elements with suspense and crime.
The deal signed by FLX marks a shift for the company which until now has been focusing mostly on ‘Nordic light’ or comedy content such as the film The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed the Window and Disappeared or the TV series Solsidan, or Welcome to Sweden.
Pontus Edgren, joint managing director of FLX said that together with the author, FLX’s plan is to create a ‘modern TV series set in Stockholm's financial world’, an environment that ‘fascinates, both upfront and behind the scenes, with its power games, hidden agendas and conflicts between new and more conservative outlooks’.
Carolina Neurath said: "There was a lot of interest from several different producers even before the book was released. After meeting with a handful of them FLX felt like the natural choice, given both their track record and their approach and commitment to this specific project. I’m really looking forward to working with them and to seeing the final result of the TV series within the next few years.”