EXCLUSIVE: Swedish super-indie B-Reel Films has taken movie and TV rights to ‘Jävla Karlar’ (‘Bloody Males’ in English), the award-winning novel from Andrev Walden.
‘Jävla Karlar’ took Sweden by storm when it was launched in 2023. It was the nation’s greatest promoting ebook of the 12 months and scooped the August Prize, which is Sweden’s prime literary honor. Translation rights have been offered throughout Europe and the English-language model of the ebook will hit cabinets subsequent 12 months.
Beginning in 1983, the story follows a younger boy who has a sequence of father figures coming and entering into his life. His mom relays a fantastical story about his true father, a mysterious, long-haired determine dwelling far-off. It sparks the boy’s creativeness to consider his father is the king of a magical land.
B-Reel is behind the upcoming Netflix motion thriller The Helicopter Heist, based mostly on the Jonas Bonnier novel a couple of daring real-life financial institution raid. The Ronnie Sandahl-penned and Daniel Espinosa-helmed sequence will debut on the Stockholm Movie Pageant on November 15 and drop on Netflix per week later.
The Swedish prodco additionally produced The Pirate Bay, in regards to the eponymous BitTorrent web site and its founders, who grew to become fugitives hunted everywhere in the world. It premiered final week on the Geneva Movie Pageant.
The artistic workforce from one other of B-Reel’s exhibits, I Am Zlatan, is growing Jävla Karlar the sequence. Jens Sjogren will direct from Jakob Beckham’s script. Each labored on The Pirate Bay.
“Andrev Walden’s distinctive storytelling resonates with audiences by its mixture of non-public perception, humor, and a contact of magic,” stated Fredrik Heinig, Producer and Managing Accomplice, B-Reel Movies. “This story has a Swedish voice with common attraction.”
Ulf Synnerholm, B-Reel’s different Managing Accomplice, added: “Sweden is wealthy with each historical fables and fashionable tales which can be ripe for adaptation. We consider ‘Jävla Karlar’ completely embodies the modern Scandinavian voice, and we’re excited to develop it right into a sequence that resonates with viewers throughout the globe.”