Adam Berg Interview: Black Crab
Black Crab is the latest in the line of Netflix's high-quality international fare. The Swedish action thriller, which arrives on the streaming platform March 18, follows a top secret mission undertaken by six soldiers living in the midst of a post-apocalyptic world at war. Based on the novel by Jerker Virdborg, the tense story sees them risking life and limb to get a mysterious parcel across a frozen landscape without knowing the consequences in store for them.
Noomi Rapace, whose horror film You Won't Be Alone is following closely on Black Crab's heels, stars as speed skater-turned-soldier Caroline Edh. While her fellow soldiers are led by duty and despair, Edh has a much stronger source of inspiration: a potential reunion with her daughter. After being separated from her child for years, the promise of seeing her again leads her to take several extreme courses of action in order to keep hope alive.
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Writer and director Adam Berg spoke to Screen Rant about the lessons he learned while making his first feature film, as well as the approach he took toBlack Crab's harrowing action scenes.
Screen Rant: The character was originally male in the Black Crab novel. What was the process of creating Caroline like, and working with Noomi to really develop that character?
Adam Berg: From the start, when we started talking about the script and the film, it just felt like… The book was written 20 years ago. I think society looked slightly different then, and obviously we moved on in many ways. Having a female lead just felt normal, and I just felt right for it.
For me, it was quite important to not feel like a gung-ho military-style film. We wanted more humanity in there, so that
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