British broadcaster Sky has commissioned a series adaptation of Stieg Larsson‘s smash hit novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Variety has learned.
Steve Lightfoot (“The Punisher,” “Hannibal”) and Angela LaManna (“The Punisher,” “Channel Zero”) will write and executive produce the eight-episode Sky Original.
The show will bring the 2005 psychological thriller into the present, grounded in the characters and investigative DNA of Larsson’s novels, with themes that carry heightened relevance today.
Filming is slated to commence in Lithuania this spring with Left Bank Pictures (“The Crown,” “Outlander”) producing.
Andy Harries, Charlotte Moore and John Phillips of Left Bank will executive produce along with Sam Hoyle for Sky, Amy Pascal, and Scott Rudin.
The series will be available on Sky in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Sony Pictures Television will handle international distribution, with pre-sale efforts now underway in the US.
In the novel, disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate the mysterious disappearance of a girl from a wealthy family 40 years earlier.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first in Larsson’s posthumous Millennium series, followed by 2006’s The Girl Who Played with Fire and 2007’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest. It has since continued with new novels by authors David Lagercrantz and Karin Smirnoff.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was first adapted in Swedish in 2009 starring Noomi Rapace, followed by David Fincher’s American adaptation in 2011 with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
Amazon announced a Girl with the Dragon Tattoo TV series back in 2020, but it never made it past the development stage.
