Sky has ordered a TV series adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s famed early 2000s novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”.
The book, the first in Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, follows disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander as they investigate the mysterious disappearance of a girl from a wealthy family 40 years earlier. The books have sold more than 100 million copies combined worldwide.
This series will “shift the story into the present, grounded in the characters and investigative DNA of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels, with themes that carry heightened relevance today.”
Steve Lightfoot (“Spider-Noir,” “Hannibal”) and Angela LaManna (“The Haunting Of Bly Manor”) will write and executive produce the eight-episode series.
Andy Harries, Charlotte Moore, John Phillips, Sam Hoyle, Amy Pascal, and Scott Rudin will executive produce. Shooting will begin this Spring in Lithuania.
This has no connection to the Amazon and MGM Studios TV series adaptation that was in development a few years ago, but never got off the ground.
The original three books were previously adapted for Swedish film and television, with Noomi Rapace’s performance as Salander widely praised. The late Michael Nyqvist also starred as Mikael Blomkvist.
David Fincher directed the well-regarded Hollywood film adaptation starring Rooney Mara as Salander and Daniel Craig as Blomkvist.
Source: Variety
