The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to get third screen adaptation
15 years after the movie starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig was released, Sky has greenlit a Girl with the Dragon Tattoo TV series. The eight-part series, which is coming to our screens courtesy of Left Bank Pictures (the team behind The Crown and Dept Q), will be based on Stieg Larsson’s globally bestselling novels. The series promises to be a “bold and contemporary reimagining” set in the present that’s “grounded in the characters and investigative DNA of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels, with themes that carry heightened relevance today”. The three books in Larsson’s Millennium novel series follow the investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, and have sold millions of copies globally. Larsson’s novels were first given the big-screen treatment in the Swedish trilogy starring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace, before David Fincher brought an English-language version of the first book to our screens in 2011, with Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig starring in the lead roles. Read more: Fincher’s take was succeeded by a Fede Álvarez-helmed follow-up, The Girl in the …




