The Snowman is a 2017 British crime thriller film, directed by Tomas Alfredson and written by Hossein Amini, Peter Straughan and Søren Sveistrup, and based on the novel of the same name by Jo Nesbø.
The film stars Michael Fassbender (X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, ASSASSIN’S CREED), Rebecca Ferguson (MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION), Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer (HEAT), J. K. Simmons (SPIDER-MAN), and Chloë Sevigny, and follows a detective who tries to find a killer who uses snowmen as his calling card. Universal Pictures released a poster on 18 July 2017, and the first trailer for the film premiered the following day.
An international trailer was released on 5 September. The original poster, featuring a doodle of a snowman and a note to the police, became a popular Internet meme shortly after its release. © Universal Pictures. This project was completed under the name of Iconisus L&Y. It is part of the Iconisus portfolio. Dreamogram is a new separate entity and not a continuation of Iconisus.