Swedish producer Helena Danielsson (pictured) who recently picked up the Nordic Council Film Prize for Pernilla August's Beyond, has just boarded the ?30m crime series Fjällbacka Murders as executive producer. She joins Tre Vänner's production team, as filming has just resumed this week with Rickard Petrelius (Anno 1790, The Archipelago Doctor) behind the camera.

The Fjällbacka Murders series consists of two seasons of 5x90' films written specifically for TV and two feature films for cinemas. The series is based on Swedish queen of crime Camilla Läckerg's universe, and the first feature film is an adaptation of her best-selling novel ‘The German Child'. The series produced by Helen Ahlsson and Caisa Westling for Tre Vänner started filming mid-August in Läckberg's home town of Fjällbacka on the West Coast of Sweden. The Oscar-nominated Marcus Olsson had finished shooting the first film and his colleague Daniel Lind Lagerlöf was supposed to take over when he tragically disappeared while location scouting in Fjällbacka's rocky outcrop.

Petrelius who had already signed up for the third film of the series accepted to board Fjällbacka's second film as well. "It feels good for the project that Petrelius is on board," said Danielsson.

Also new on The Fjällbacka series the Swedish producer will also offer her international expertise to Tre Vänner's managing trio Michael Hjorth, Johan Kindblom and Tomas Tivemark, while keeping her own company Hepp Film's projects going. "My focus now is to oversee - with Tre Vänner's production team - the work of the talents and new directors that will be attached to The Fjällbacka Murders' second season and to start packaging all materials prior to Berlin, together with sales agent TrustNordisk," explains Danielsson.

Meanwhile, the producer's own ambitious Bosse Högberg untitled feature film project to be directed by Hollywood-based Catherine Hardwicke has been delayed. The true story of the love affair between cabaret singer Anita Lindblom (played by Noomi Rapace) and Swedish boxer Bosse Högberg (Ola Rapace) is now set to start filming around June 2012, due to Ole Rapace's acting commitment in the new James Bond's film Skyfall.
Set in Sweden's 1960s and based on a script by Peter Birro, the ‘Bosse Högberg' film project will be shot in Swedish, in English and other languages. So far, Paradox Entertainment has come on board along with Nordisk Film as co-producer and Scandinavian distributor.