Michael Fassbender & Rebecca Ferguson's $35M Crime Thriller Flop Is Officially Leaving Netflix At The Worst Time

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The Snowman's Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole

Published Mar 22, 2026, 10:24 AM EDT

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Michael Fassbender fans will only have a few short weeks to catch one of his most infamous movies.

Now, Netflix has officially announced when this icy thriller's streaming status will melt away. According to the streamer, The Snowman will leave the platform on April 16 in the United States. This gives subscribers less than a month to watch the poorly reviewed but now iconic Fassbender movie.

This Netflix departure is particularly ill-timed because of the streamer's plans with the IP. Next week, the streamer will release the series Jo Nesbo's Detective Hole. Coming out March 26, the series will adapt Nesbo's Harry Hole novels, the same series from which The Snowman finds its story.

As such, if there was any time for audiences to be interested in The Snowman, it is now. The Snowman is the seventh book in the Harry Hole series, following the same lead detective. Detective Hole will primarily adapt the series' fifth novel, The Devil's Star. They have separate stories, but are still set in the same universe.

Fassbender is not returning for the TV series version of this story. Instead, Detective Hole's titular protagonist will be played by Norwegian actor Tobias Santelmann. Santelmann joins a predominantly Nordic cast composed also of Joel Kinnaman, Pia Tjelta, Anders Dahlberg, Ellen Helinder, and Aleksander Varadian.

Detective Hole premieres on Netflix on Thursday, March 26. This means that there will still be some overlap between it's tenure on Netflix and The Snowman's. In that time, it will be interesting to see whether audience takes up the Fassbender thriller while also diving into the TV world of Harry Hole.

This is not a guarantee, as audiences have never been a huge fan of The Snowman either. The movie's paltry 7% Tomatometer was matched with a not that much higher 19% audience Popcornmeter. Audiences too have complained about the film's pacing, script, and poor adaptation of Nesbo's original work.

This means that Jo Nesbo's Detective Hole also has a window of opportunity to impress fans of the original novels. Book-to-TV show adaptations in this genre have shown their capacity to do well, as is the case in Prime Video's series Reacher. Whether Detective Hole wows fans or lets them down like The Snowman remains to be seen.