SF Studios to adapt youth crime book series Moonwind & Hoff

SF Studios’s Stefan H. Lindén (Eagles, The Big Race) and Alexandra Thönnersten (Eagles) are producing for SF Studios.

Published in 2021 by Natur & Kultur Allmänlitteratur, The Night Raven (Nattkorpen) won the prestigious August Prize - Best Children and Youth Book in 2021.

Other novels in the Moonwind & Hoff crime book series include The Queen of Thieves, The Angel of Death and The Blood Pact.

“We have a good connection with the publishing house and started looking early at optioning the film rights,” said Lindén to nordicfilmandtvnews.com. “This was exactly what we needed for our slate of mainstream films and it perfectly fits our production and distribution set up.”

The Moowind & Hoff series features the sharp-eyed orphan girl Mika who together with the police officer Valdemar Hoff, hunts murderers and solves crimes in 19th-century Stockholm.

In The Night Raven a new-born girl is left at Mika’s orphanage by a terrified young man. It is the beginning of a chain of events that will put Mika in greater danger than she could ever imagine.

Lindén is now looking for the best scriptwriter to kickstart the screen version.

Asked if he would use the traditional public funding model, he said: “We’re ‘open-minded’ but our initial thought is indeed to go that route, as we’re producing it and planning to release it ourselves in cinemas across the Nordics.”