Department Q Movie Boundless Sells Across 26 Countries for TrustNordisk

Copenhagen-based TrustNordisk continues to score with the thriller “Boundless,” starring Ulrich Thomsen as maverick detective Carl Mørck from author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s “Department Q” crime series.
The latest deals were closed with Plaion for Germany and Austria, Movies Inspired for Italy, Cinemania Group for former Yugoslavia and Albania, Media4Fun for Poland and Palace Films for Australia and New Zealand. 

A total of 26 territories now hold the rights including France (Wild Bunch Distribution), Spain (Vértigo Films) and Switzerland (Frenetic Films). According to TrustNordisk’s sales manager Frederik Hemmingsen, 65% of the buyers are the same ones who acquired earlier “Department Q” films.

Currently ranking second at the 2024 Danish box office with over 311,000 admissions, “Boundless” is the second of six “Department Q” standalone features produced by Nordisk Film Production Denmark, after “The Marco Effect.” Four earlier film adaptations produced by Zentropa turned into major hits: “The Keeper of Lost Causes,” “The Absent One,”“A Conspiracy of Faith” and “The Purity of Vengeance.”

Adapted by seasoned writer Jakob Weis (“The Interrogation,” “That Time of Year”) from Adler-Olsen’s sixth book in the crime series, “Boundless” follows the investigations of Carl Mørck and side-kick Assad (Afshin Firouzi from Lone Scherfig’s series “The Shift”).

The junior colleague Rose (Sofie Torp from “Carmen Curlers”) who has joined the duo is sent to the island of Bornholm to talk to Carl Mørck’s old friend and colleague, Christian Habersaat. But when the latter shoots himself during his forced retirement ceremony, Rose is thrown back into her own traumatic past. When the newly engaged Carl later arrives on the island, he, Rose and Assad are embroiled in an old cold case of a girl found dead hanging from a tree.

In an earlier interview with Variety, Madsen described the pic as “a thought-provoking thriller about revenge, power and submission, but also about restraints.”

The film was produced by Mikael Rieks and Malene Blenkov for Nordisk Film Production Denmark, in co-production with Germany’s Nadcon Film, in association with Denmark’s Hyæne Film and Latvia’s Münchhausen Productions.

An English-language version produced by Left Bank Pictures for Netflix with “The Queen’s Gambit” showrunner Scott Frank is due for global release.