<P> The Snowman is a 2017 British crime thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson and written by Hossein Amini and Peter Straughan , based on the novel of the same name by Jo Nesbø . The film stars Michael Fassbender , Rebecca Ferguson , Charlotte Gainsbourg , Val Kilmer , J.K. Simmons , and Chloë Sevigny , and follows a detective who tries to find the identity of a killer who uses snowmen as his calling card . </P>
what book is the snowman movie based off of
the novel of the same name by Jo Nesbø