[4] Joel Kinnaman stars in the lead role of Johan "JW" Westlund, a rather poor man living a double life in the upper class areas of Stockholm.

After meeting a wealthy girl, he is enticed into the world of organized crime and begins to sell cocaine to afford his expensive lifestyle.

In 2010, Warner Bros. announced their plans for an American remake of Easy Money starring Zac Efron,[5] but the project was shelved.

[6] In 2021, the TV series Snabba Cash was released on Netflix, containing 6 episodes based on the original novel.

He has a plan: to avenge those who wronged him, among them Serbian Mafia boss Radovan Kranjic, and to make one final cocaine delivery and then leave the country for good.

Mrado Slovovic, a hitman who runs errands for the Serbian Mafia, is sent by Radovan on a mission to take care of Jorge.

JW fortuitously finds them when he notices the car he saw Mrado drive away in standing in a forest clearing.

At one of the jetsetter parties, JW falls for Sophie (Lisa Henni), the on and off girlfriend of jet-setter Carl.

This becomes important when Abdulkarim asks JW to figure out how they can launder the 20,000,000 SEK profit they will eventually earn.

JW acts as the front man for Abdulkarim's cocaine syndicate as they attempt to purchase the bank.

JW immediately raises concerns about that plan, arguing that Switzerland is not that secret anymore and recommends an account in Andorra or Liechtenstein instead.

He is visited by Sophie who still cares deeply for JW, but she is leaving Sweden to stay at her parents’ house in France.

Then a lot of crazy stuff happened and I ended up at Sigtuna with a bunch of upper class brats.

I love my character deeply, but he makes a lot of decisions in life that are idiotic and he chooses paths that lead to disaster and that gets unbelievably painful consequences for both him and the people that mean something for him.

[10] In December 2009 Lapidus told the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet that he had seen an early version of the film and "it feels good.

Naturally my main characters are in it and they have managed to capture the authentic feel, but I haven't written the manuscript, I've only given pointers.

[3] After a bidding on the project, involving Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Summit Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, The Weinstein Company, and Mandate Pictures - Warner Bros. won the rights to produce an American remake.

Less than three months later we did the deal with Warner Bros."[3] Easy Money was an instant hit in Sweden with more than 100,000 tickets sold during the film's first weekend in theaters, topping the box office charts.

[17] Aftonbladet critic Karolina Fjellborg gave it four out of five stars, commenting that Espinosa "has made a believable, well-acted, nice-looking, and surprisingly thrilling film, with a nerve and a pace that is often missing in Swedish thrillers."

[18] Expressen's Miranda Sigander wrote that Kinnaman plays JW "in a natural and convincing way and steals the show with his charisma.

"[20] He added, however, that the film lacks coherence and that the story becomes disjointed because of the constant jumps between the three main characters.

[20] Sveriges Television's Jerker Peterson, on the other hand, thought that Espinosa and his writer Maria Karlsson were able to "nicely keep together the straggling story."

He continues by saying that Snabba Cash has "sharp pacing, a fresh storyline, and above all a sinister portrayal of Stockholm as a cold and dark place.