12/07/2017 - The third film about the Swedish crime investigator will become a TV series from SF Studios, still with Swedish actor Rolf Lassgård in the lead

Swedish police inspector Erik Bäckström first appeared in Swedish director Kjell Sundvall’s 1996 thriller The Hunters; 15 years later, he solved his next case in Sundvall’s False Trail [+see also:
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“Erik Bäckström is very close to my heart – he is a complex police officer, with a tendency to end up in conflicts with himself and his colleagues within the force, even if friendships and family ties are threatened. I am really looking forward to playing him again – it will be like meeting an old friend,” Lassgård explained.

Scripted by Swedish screenwriters Björn Carlström (The Hunters, False Trail) and Stefan Thunberg (False Trail, Agent Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation [+see also:
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The Hunters will be helmed by award-winning Swedish director Jens Jonsson (Easy Money III: Life Deluxe) and produced by SF Studios’ Per Janérus and Carlström, in collaboration with C More/TV4 and Swedish regional film centre Filmpool Nord. It will be launched next year.

“This series will further strengthen our position as a leading producer of high-end television drama, which is now in an expansive and exciting stage,” said Johan Hedman, head of SF Studios TV and Web Production, which is also working on the six-part drama series Alex with Nevision, starring Swedish actor Dragomir Mrsic, and the ten-part thriller series The Lawyer, with Alexander Karim in the lead, for MTG’s Viaplay.