Blood on Snow

Blood on Snow is an upcoming American crime thriller film adapted by Jo Nesbø from his own novel of the same name. It is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and written by Nesbø and Ben Power.

Blood on Snow
Directed by	Cary Joji Fukunaga
Screenplay by	Jo Nesbø Ben Power
Based on	Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø
Produced by	Jo Nesbø Cary Joji Fukunaga Dean Baker Niclas Salomonsson Hayden Lautenbach Mike Larocca Tracey Seaward
Starring	Benedict Cumberbatch Aaron Taylor-Johnson Eva Green Emma Laird Ben Mendelsohn
Cinematography	Mátyás Erdély[1]
Edited by	Mark Sanger
Production companies	Department M Redpoint Productions
Country	United States
Language	English

Premise

A hit man falls for his client's wife, who happens to be the target of the assassin's latest assignment.

Cast

• Benedict Cumberbatch as The Fisherman
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Olav
• Eva Green
• Emma Laird
• Ben Mendelsohn
• Pilou Asbæk
• Mahmut Suvakci

Production

Nesbø is adapting the script (with screenwriter Ben Power), based on his own best-selling novel of the same name. Cary Joji Fukunaga is attached as director with Tom Hardy and Aaron Taylor-Johnson attached to the cast. Hardy and Dean Baker are producers on the project for Hardy Son & Baker, alongside Fukunaga, Nesbø, Niclas Salomonsson, and Hayden Lautenbach and Mike Larocca for Department M.^[2] In February 2025, Hardy left the project due to scheduling conflicts, and that Benedict Cumberbatch was cast instead, with Eva Green, Emma Laird, and Ben Mendelsohn joined the cast as well.^[3] In July, Pilou Asbæk was added to the cast.^[4]

Filming

Principal photography began in February 2025, in Riga, Latvia.^[3][5]