Netflix has announced a new Swedish original series ‘The Unlikely Murderer’. The five-part limited series is based on the award-winning 2018 book of the same name by Thomas Pettersson.
As per Netflix, “The Swedish drama series is a fictional interpretation of how Stig Engström, the graphic designer who was named as the probable murderer of Sweden’s prime minister Olof Palme, managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck and a perplexed police force. What do we know about Stig Engström? How could the police let him get away, despite being on his track? The murder was not planned well, Engström did everything wrong from the beginning and almost no one believed his lies about what he actually did during that fateful night 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden.”
While Robert Gustafsson (‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared’, ‘Det som göms i snö’) will play the lead role of Stig Engström, the rest of the cast includes Eva Melander, Mikael Persbrandt, Peter Andersson, Joel Spira, Emil Almén, Shanti Roney, Torkel Petterson, Henrik Norlén, Lia Boysen, Magnus Krepper, Björn Bengtsson, Peter Viitanen and Cilla Thorell.
Charlotte Brändström (‘The Witcher’, ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’) serves as the conceptual director for ‘The Unlikely Murderer’ that has been written by Wilhelm Behrman and Niklas Rockström (‘Caliphate’, ‘Before we Die’). Other than Brändström, Simon Kaijser (‘Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves’, ‘Before we Die’, ‘Spinning Man’) will also direct the Swedish Netflix series.
Netflix’s ‘The Unlikely Murderer’ will be produced by FLX’s Fatima Varhos and Frida Asp. Pontus Edgren of FLX will executive produce the series. FLX is the same production company that made Netflix original series ‘Quicksand’ and ‘Love & Anarchy’.
‘The Unlikely Murderer’ is scheduled for a 2021 release on Netflix.
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