Between 2007 and 2021, Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen wrote ten novels in his noir crime sequence Division Q. These tales have served as the premise for a number of Danish thriller movies through the years, with extra to return – and now, Netflix has shared a batch of first look photographs that give a preview of their upcoming 9-episode sequence Dept. Q, which stars Matthew Goode and modifications the setting from Copenhagen, Denmark to Edinburgh, Scotland. Together with the revealing of the pictures comes the announcement that Dept. Q is scheduled to premiere on Might 29th.
Written and directed by Scott Frank, who beforehand created The Queen’s Gambit and Godless for Netflix, Dept. Q has the next synopsis: DCI Carl Morck is a superb cop however a horrible colleague. His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no buddies in Edinburgh police. After a capturing that leaves a younger laptop lifeless, and his accomplice paralysed, he finds himself exiled to the basement and the only member of Division Q; a newly fashioned chilly case unit. The division is a PR stunt, there to distract the general public from the failures of an under-resourced, failing police pressure that’s glad to see the again of him. However extra by chance than design, Carl begins to construct a gang of waifs and strays who’ve every little thing to show. So, when the stone-cold path of a outstanding civil servant who disappeared a number of years in the past begins to warmth up, Carl is again doing what he does finest – rattling cages and refusing to take no for a solution.
Matthew Goode (The King’s Man) performs Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck and is joined within the solid by Chloe Pirrie (An Inspector Calls) as Merritt Lingard, Jamie Sives (Annika) as Detective Chief Inspector James Hardy, Mark Bonnar (Operation Mincemeat) as Stephen Burns, Alexej Manvelov (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) as Akram Salim, Leah Byrne (The Final Bus) as Detective Constable Rose Dickson, Kate Dickie (Sport of Thrones) as Detective Chief Superintendent Moira Jacobson, Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones’s Diary) as Claire Marsh, Kelly Macdonald (No Nation for Previous Males) as Dr. Rachel Irving, and Tom Bulpett (Father Brown) as William Lingard.
Talking with Tudum, Frank revealed that he had been pondering an adaptation of Adler-Olsen’s works for a number of years. “There was just something about it. The title, this notion of something called Department Q, stayed with me. And so I met with the author while I was shooting (the 2014 film) A Walk Among the Tombstones in New York, and I’d actually had the books for a couple of years by then. He said, ‘I trust you’ and that he’d always hoped I would end up writing and directing it.” As Tudum notes, Adler-Olsen has now gotten his want, as Frank wrote or co-wrote all 9 episodes of Dept. Q, and directed six.
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