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Girl With The Dragon Tattoo TV Show Gets First Major Update In 3 Years

15 months ago
More than three years since it was first announced, Amazon's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo TV show adaptation gets its first major update. After more than three years since it was first announced, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo television series has finally landed a showrunner. Based on the best-selling Millennium novels created by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, the series had previously been adapted into a Swedish film trilogy in 2009. In 2011, David Fincher attempted his own US-led adaptation of the first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. However, its 2018 sequel/quasi-reboot The Girl in the Spider's Web would later recast both roles under the direction of Fede Álvarez. Amazon would later announce a fresh TV reboot in May 2020.
Per Variety, the long-gestating plans for a television adaption of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are finally moving forward at Amazon MGM Studios with the announcement of Veena Sud as its new showrunner. No stranger to adapting foreign crime dramas, Sud had previously led AMC’s crime drama The Killing, which was itself an adaptation of the Danish series Forbrydelsen. She also wrote and directed the 2018 psychological horror movie The Lie, based on the German movie Wir Monster.
Given the show’s current working title, which honors the original English title of Larsson’s first book, audiences may naturally expect that this new adaption may return to the source material, retell a story that has already been adapted to the screen, and eventually move sequentially through each of the later novels. With Larsson writing three books before he died in 2004, the Millennium series was later continued by both David Lagercrantz and Karin Smirnoff, offering a total of seven books to draw from. Surprisingly, however, when The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo television series was first announced back in 2020, it was suggested that the show would follow an entirely original story centered on the character of the asocial computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, previously played by the likes of Noomi Rapace, Rooney Mara, and Claire Foy. It is currently unclear what other characters from the Millennium novels, including Craig’s investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist, may make their way into this new adaptation