Axel Åhman will star in Warner Bros. International Television Production Finland’s dark comedy series Body in the Closet, with shooting due to begin next autumn. The show centres on a theatre worker who dies by chainsaw and returns as a ghost.
01Summary
- 01Axel Åhman is set to play Staffan, an audience services employee at a theatre, in Body in the Closet.
- 02Staffan is a country boy in a big-city cultural institution, has a crush on Betty and dies by chainsaw before haunting her.
- 03Elin Grönblom directs and co-wrote the series with Josefin Sonck, who will play the lead.
- 04The series is produced for Warner Bros. International Television Production Finland and is due to start shooting next autumn.
- 05Svenska YLE, the Swedish-language division of Finland’s public broadcaster YLE, is already on board.
02Why it matters
The series combines dark comedy, supernatural elements and a theatre setting, which the makers say gives it strong international potential. Åhman’s casting also links the project to KAJ, the comedy group he is best known for.
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