Tobias Lindholm, the director of the Danish Oscar-winning "A War" (2015) and screenwriter of Thomas Vinterberg's also Oscar-nominated film "The Hunt" (2012), has taken on the task of creating a TV program from the criminal case of the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. Make series. Lindholm has serial experience as one of the authors of the highly acclaimed Danish political saga "Borgen".
The focus of the series, which is being developed by the production company Miso Film together with the Danish and Swedish television, is to investigate the investigation of the Copenhagen homicide commission headed by Inspector Jens Møller. The policeman will also cooperate with Lindholm as well as the parents of the murdered.
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Jens Møller, Head of Homicide Copenhagen
Ingrid and Joachim Wall said in a statement by RTL Group subsidiary Fremantle, who will take over the international distribution of the series: "We had decided early on that Kim's fate should not be forgotten." In talks with author Lindholm and Commissioner Møller, they had gained confidence that the story of how Kim's murder was cleared up was told from the right perspective - "with respect for everyone who knew and loved Kim."
The series, which has the working title "The Investigation", should be determined neither by the criminal nor by the crime, so Tobias Lindholm. He wished to make a crime series that would hide the all too colorful things and show the reality and the facts soberly and precisely.
Inventor Peter Madsen, sentenced to life imprisonment for Kim Wall's murder, had accepted the sentence in early October. He had tortured the Swedish journalist Kim Wall in a self-made submarine in the summer of 2017, killed and dismembered thrown overboard. The court was based on a sexual motive.