New Netflix thriller starring Trainspotting legend takes over Scots street as crews roll in

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Netflix film crews have taken over a Scots street as production for a brand new thriller series starring Kelly Macdonald gets underway.

Melville Street in Edinburgh is partially closed from 8am until 5pm on Wednesday as film crews are capturing scenes for upcoming detective show Department Q, from a best-selling Danish author, writes Edinburgh Live.The release date for the "terrific mystery" is currently unknown, however, locals of the area saw crews setting up tents, cameras and lighting with the street, and near by streets were blocked off.Ahead of the filming, locals were alerted of the slight disruption in a letter which read: "We are writing to you on behalf of LBM Dept Q Ltd to inform you of our plans to film scenes for a chilling new detective series being made for one of the large streaming channels in and around Edinburgh."Department Q, which comes from the director The Queen's Gambit Scott Frank, is based on a best-selling crime series from Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen.Frank said: “The fact that I have been a fan of Jussi’s novels for a dozen years now combined with my long-standing obsession with old school British procedurals like Cracker and Prime Suspect, made this one irresistible."There are ten novels in all, each one is a terrific mystery with great potential for a great season of television.

And Carl Mørck is one of those classic detective antiheroes, funny and dark at the same time, that I can never get enough of.

I think audiences will feel the same way.”The synopsis for the book in the series, which is called The Keeper of Lost Causes, says: "Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen's best homicide detectives."Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw