'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' TV Series Set at Sky (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Sky has commissioned an eight-episode series adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," with Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna as writers and executive producers, and Left Bank Pictures producing.
- Production is set to begin in Lithuania this spring, and the show will air on Sky in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, with Sony Pictures Television handling international distribution.
- The series will update the story to the present day, focusing on journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigating a decades-old disappearance, while maintaining the core themes of Larsson’s Millennium novels.
- Previous adaptations include a Swedish film series and a 2011 American film
