Netflix is expanding its Scandinavian programming with the release of Black Crab, a thriller starring Noomi Rapace in a freezing post-apocalyptic environment.
Adam Berg will direct Netflix’s Black Crab, his feature debut following a career in music videos (The Cardigans, A-ha) and commercials. Malin Idevall and Mattias Montero of Stockholm-based Indio are the producers.
What is the storyline of Black Crab?
Black Crab is a Netflix adaptation of Jerker Virdborg’s suspense novel of the same name. The book’s summary is as follows:
Black Crab is an existential thriller set in a civil war that could very well be our own time. Four troops are dispatched from a military base near the seashore to transport capsules to a research facility farther south. They don’t know what’s in the capsules, they don’t know each other, and they have little idea what’s going on in the battle, but they have to complete this mission on skates over the icy sea in the dead of night.
The following is the official plot synopsis for Netflix’s Black Crab, as provided in a press release:
Black Crab is a post-apocalyptic action thriller set in a world ripped apart by climate change and violence. During a never-ending winter, six soldiers are dispatched on a perilous trip across the freezing sea to deliver a cargo that might ultimately end the conflict. The mission tests their ideals and compels them to ask: what are they ready to sacrifice for their own survival? They are equipped with guns and ice skates, but they have no idea what they’re carrying or who they can trust.
Who is in the cast of Black Crab?
Noomi Rapace, whose credits include The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus, Lamb, and many others, stars as the lead in Netflix’s Black Crab Jakob Oftebro (The Letter for the King, Agent Hamilton, Norsemen), Erik Enge (Beck, The Bridge, The Sandhamn Murders), Dar Salim (Dicte, Borgen, Game of Thrones), and Ardalan Esmaili (Dicte, Borgen, Game of Thrones) join Rapace (The Rain, Rebecka Martinsson, Greyzone). The four of them are depicted in the behind-the-scenes photo below:
Adam Berg, the filmmaker, expressed his joy and pride at having such a talented cast bring this film and its characters to life. These superb actors will lead us through the drama with their eyes, voices, faces, and bodies. They will make us experience the cruelty of battle, the value of hope in a dismal world, and the high cost of survival. They will lend a wonderful humanity to the Black Crab’s cold, brutal world.”
What is the current state of Black Crab production?
Throughout 2021, filming for Netflix’s Black Crab took place in Sweden. While few specifics are available, we do know that production is now complete and the film is in post-production.
When will Black Crab be available on Netflix?
Black Crab will be released sometime in 2022, according to Netflix. Given the film’s current state of development, we’d guess the first half of 2022.
