headhuntersThis new trailer for the big screen adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s acclaimed crime thriller Headhunters daubs the screen with the name of Stieg Larsson, and you can see the aesthetic connection here though I doubt a comparison is the best place to start for Morten Tyldum’s film.

Headhunters is getting a release in cinemas here on the 6th of April and this may be your first look at the film, which Game of Thrones fans will be happy to know has Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in a prominent role, and it’s a fairly frantic and well made trailer, giving us just the basic set up (corporate headhunter steals art on the side, does so from the wrong person, it all goes wrong) as well as hinting at some of the big set pieces.

Here’s the trailer, if we’re not being fed a line then Jo Nesbo may well be the next big thing for the crime adaptation game, particularly with Martin Scorsese’s recent interest in Nesbo’s The Snowman (which we’re assuming has nothing to do with the Raymond Briggs story).

Time’s up – here’s the trailer,