The film will be a feature-length remake of the Azazel mini-series for
the Western viewer. It will be based on Fandorin’s first adventure, The
Winter Queen (Azazel). In the novel, young police detective Erast Fandorin
unintentionally stumbles across a mysterious wave of suicides that
rolls through Moscow. In the course of his investigation, the detective
uncovers a powerful organization which plans to infiltrate every leading
state institution around the world and seize control of the entire
planet. The organization operates under the name of Azazel.
