Sevigny was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Boys Don't Cry, she appeared in American Psycho and in Lars von Trier's Dogville and most recently in the TV series American Horror Story: Asylum and Zodiac. The US remake produced by A&E Networks for Fox 21 is written by Glen Morgan (X-Files) based on Elsebeth Egholm and Stefan Jaworski's original script. Morgan will executive-produce alongside Imagine Television's Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo and Denmark's Jonas Allen and Peter Bose (Miso Film), producers of the original show.
In a press statement, Keld Reinicke, responsible for TV2 Danmark's new ‘Special Forces' unit for local fiction series and long-term programming projects stressed the US appetite for Scandinavian crime. "Americans are looking for new ways to make crime fiction and our Scandinavian dramas have a certain depth, a different look and other characters and environments that broadcasters focus on."
The Danish series Those who Kill supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond was aired on TV2 in 2011 and had an average viewership of 1.031.000. The show was sold to several world broadcasters including ITV3 in the UK and ZDF in Germany where the series' final episode was viewed by over 3.8 million people.