Tobey Maguire to Make Directorial Debut Adapting BLOOD ON SNOW

Tobey Maguire is set to make his directorial debut, stepping behind the camera for an adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s novella Blood on Snow. Deadline reports that Maguire’s production company Material, alongside Lawrence Grey’s Grey Matter Productions, acquired the rights to the book.

Nesbo will write the script himself. The thriller follows Olav, a fixer for an Oslo crime syndicate, who is ordered to kill his boss’ wife. A full synopsis is below.

This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented “fixer” for one of Oslo’s most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our straightforward, calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller’s hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an “innate talent for subordination” but running through his veins is a “virus” born of the power over life and death. And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade, it may be mutating into his greatest mistake. . .