The Swedish film Black Crab (Svart Krabba) is based on Jerker Virdborg’s eponymous novel, adapted for the screen by commercials and music video director Adam Berg who will make his feature debut. Virdborg and Berg collaborated earlier on the short film In, which won Göteborg’s Novella Film Award in 2011.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world torn apart by climate change and war, Black Crab centres on six soldiers, on a dangerous mission across the frozen sea to transport a package that could finally end the war. Equipped with ice skates, unaware of what they're carrying, or who they can trust, the mission challenges their beliefs and forces them to ask: what are they willing to sacrifice for their own survival?

Rapace who has spent most of the last decade in the US, working on major productions such as Prometheus, Sherlock Holmes and What Happened to Monday said: “I’m very excited to come back to Sweden and do Black Crab, my first Swedish film in …years! I can’t wait to get suited up and go on this journey, explore human shadows and slide through broken dreams and a world on edge."

Producer Mattias Montero, founder of Indio said: “As a Swede you grow up knowing you live in a country of peace and equality, all in all life’s good and safe here. But lately we have all learned how fragile our societies are due to pandemics, civil wars, global warming and economic chaos. How would it be to wake up one day in a totally destroyed and war torn Sweden? Producing Black Crab is about flipping the coin and from a Scandinavian perspective show what happens to humanity when chaos arrives. It’s a big production and a great challenge and thanks to Netflix we can tell this Swedish story to a global audience.”

David Kosse, Vice President International Original Film at Netflix said: “This project combines so many great attributes: a compelling story, a strong creative team and of course an incredibly talented lead actress.” The film will be released globally by Netflix in 2022.

  Rapace’s anticipated Icelandic film Lamb will be released in 2021.