A new TV series and two films based on best-selling novelist Camilla Läckberg's works, will be her - and production house Tre Vänner's - most expensive project to date with a SEK300 million price tag. The two feature film projects will be adapted from two Läckberg novels, and the 10 x 90 minute TV series Camilla Läckberg's The Fjällbacka Mystery - executive produced by Tre Vänner co-founder Michael Hjorth - will be based on original stories specifically written for TV by acclaimed scriptwriters supported by the novelist. All crime stories will be told in flashbacks and set in Läckberg's birth place, the small town of Fjällbacka. The lead character will be Läckberg's alter ego, Erica Falck, a young determined and likable woman married to a police investigator. The first script will be introduced to world buyers at the upcoming Berlinale.
On the arthouse end of the market, Lisa Langseth's Pure is proving a festival hit (three awards won in a week in Pusan, Viareggio and Ghent) and opened in Sweden to excellent reviews. Alicia Vikander who plays the lead character of Katarina, a passionate young girl who goes through a social and cultural journey in the film, has just been nominated as one of four Swedish promising actresses running for the L'Oréal Rising Star Award at the upcoming Stockholm Film Festival.
Ahlsson is already working on a new feature project with Langseth, a drama about violence. Next on her production line up for Tre Vänner is a youth musical directed by Tova Magnusson.