WHAT REMAINS Trailer Stars Stellan Skarsgård, Gustaf Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough – Based On Sweden’s Most Notoious Serial Killer

Here’s a first look at the official trailer for the upcoming Scandinavian thriller WHAT REMAINS. The film stars Gustaf Skarsgård (“Vikings”), Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) and Stellan Skarsgård (Dune: Part Two).

During the 1990s, at a Scandinavian psychiatric hospital, a man known as Mads Lake confessed to multiple murders and was convicted. However, the uneasy triumvirate of Mads, therapist Anna Rudebeck and policeman Soren Rank, all have a vested interest in unearthing the truth, as a deepening co-dependency threatens to consume them all. Inspired by true events.

The film is almost entirely fictionalized, but loosely based on Sweden’s most notorious serial killer Thomas Quick AKA Sture Bergwall who confessed to more than 30 murders over three decades, the first murder being committed when he was only 14-years old. He later retracted his confessions, saying that he had been heavily medicated and seeking attention. Swedish journalists following the case claimed that a “cult”-like group led by psychologist Margit Norell manipulated the police and talked Bergwall into false confessions. His case is now considered Sweden’s most infamous miscarriage of justice.

What Remains marks the feature directorial debut for artist-turned-filmmaker Ran Huang who was fascinated by the real-life story. The filmmaking process was a seven-year venture, beginning with Ran calling up Stellan Skarsgård who acted as the godfather for the film, pointing Ran in the right direction and putting him in touch with the right people in Sweden. Ran co-wrote the script with Stellan’s wife Megan Everett-Skarsgard.

The film premiered out of Locarno Film Festival and VMI will release the film in theaters and on VOD on June 21^st.