Stieg Larsson’s dark mystery thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo will be adapted once more, this time as a series produced by Sky and Left Bank Pictures.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first of The Millennium Trilogy which follows hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Dragon Tattoo sees Blomkvist hired by a wealthy old man to investigate the disappearance of his great niece 40 years earlier, a case that has still gone unsolved and torments the elderly patriarch of the family empire. The case intersects with Salander’s investigation into Blomkvist and her own sense of justice as they attempt tracking down a vicious killer and uncover the family’s secrets.
Sky said the series will be a “bold and contemporary reimagining that brings The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo into the present, grounded in the characters and investigative DNA of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels, with themes that carry heightened relevance today.”
The project has been created by Steve Lightfoot (Spider-Noir) and Angela LaManna (The Haunting of Bly Manor), who will write and executive produce the eight-episode series. Production will begin this spring in Lithuania.
The books were previously adapted by Niels Arden Oplev and Daniel Alfredson with Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth and the late Michael Nyqvist as Blomkvist. David Fincher directed a US remake with Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in the lead roles while Claire Foy starred as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web.
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