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Joe Berlinger Developing U.S. Remake Of Swedish Crime Series ‘The Truth Will Out’ With Endemol Shine North America

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EXCLUSIVE: Swedish crime drama series The Truth Will Out is getting a U.S. remake from Paradise Lost director Joe Berlinger and Endemol Shine North America.Berlinger, who has directed a slew of true crime documentaries and rock docs such as Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster, has teamed with the production company to direct and exec produce an English-language adaptation of the series, which is based on an idea from famed Swedish author and criminologist Leif GW Persson.Persson is best known in the U.S.

as the author of the books that short-lived Fox series Backstrom, starring Rainn Wilson, was based on.The series, known as Det Som Göms I Snö in Sweden, comes from Endemol Shine North America’s sister Swedish company Yellow Bird, which is similarly owned by Banijay.The original launched in 2018 and follows a Stockholm police detective with a history of mental instability, and his newly formed Cold Case Unit, a group of misfit officers tasked with solving long-unresolved murder case.Starring Robert Gustafsson, it has been a hit for Sweden’s Kanal 5, streamer Viaplay and also airs internationally on servies including Amazon.

Based on Persson’s idea, it was written and created by Aron Levander and Hans Jörnlind.The first season is centered around an unknown killer, who leaves a message for the police stating that Sweden’s most notorious serial killer is actually a fraud, Wendel and his team work to uncover the truth, but immediately find themselves at odds with the powerful group of people who had the original killer convicted in the first place.

In the second season, Wendel’s Cold Case Unit has barely risen in the ranks at the police station since its last investigation.

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