User:Lilduff90/CSI Halsnøy (series)

CSI Halsnøy is a series of Norwegian slapstick-crime-comedy films, written and directed by Christian Bjørgen and Rune Landa. Originally set to be a film trilogy, the last two films were scrapped after several years in production hell.

Background
The five producers are high-school friends and classmates, some of them being friends for more than ten years. Christian Bjørgen and Martin Bjørnevik had prior to the series created several short films, with Steffen Televik usually taking part in editing aswell as some filming. Rune Landa and Even Sjo were also friends before meeting the other three.

Production
The first film was written, filmed and completed over the course of three weeks in the fall of 2005, as part of a school project in film. The first edit, which served as the "theatrical" release is today considered lost, as the producers have stated in later interviews that they were not satisfied with the result, because of the limitations they had during productions (poor equipment and a lack of locations). A secondary edit of the film was produced during spring 2006, and this version is the one that can be seen on YouTube and on the movie website. A director's cut was in production for a long time, and according to director Christian Bjørgen it would have been a complete remaster and re-edit of the entire film. No further details were announced.

The second film, originally titled CSI Halsnøy II: The Return of Even was written the next year, but scheduling conflicts caused a great deal of delays, until the project was shelved in 2007. In September 2009, the producers stated in an interview that the movie is far from cancelled, and that they were hoping to get the time to record it sometime within the next six months. Both the script for this film, aswell as the one for the yet-untitled third film, have been completed by the writers.

Cancellation and novelization
In January 2010, the directors announced that the two finals films had been canceled due to lack of time and interest from the actors. The directors cut of the first film was also cancelled due to the fact that many of the original tapes are considered lost. However, a novelization of both the first film and the other unreleased parts in the trilogy are currently being penned from the finished scripts. No release date has been set, but the writers are hoping to have the first draft finished before summer.