This controversial Daniel Craig movie is now being adapted into a television show.
What Daniel Craig movie is becoming a TV show?
According to Variety, Sky has ordered a TV show adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Steve Lightfoot (Spider-Noir) and Angela LaManna (The Haunting of Bly Manor) will write and executive-produce the television adaptation. Additional executive producers include Andy Harries, Charlotte Moore, John Phillips, Sam Hoyle, Amy Pascal, and Scott Rudin. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo TV show will consist of eight episodes. Left Bank Pictures will produce the Sky Original series.
Based on Stieg Larsson’s best-selling novel of the same name, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo follows Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist hired by a wealthy CEO to solve the disappearance of his niece 40 years earlier. During the investigation, Blomkvist teams with a mysterious tech genius named Lisbeth Salander.
“The TV show will bring the story into the present, grounded in the characters and investigative DNA of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels, with themes that carry heightened relevance today,” the official description reads.
Production is expected to begin in Lithuania this spring. The TV show will air on Sky in the UK and other European territories. International distribution will be handled by Sony Pictures Television. The show has not announced where it will broadcast in the U.S., but pre-sale efforts have commenced
In 2009, Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace starred in the Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.
In 2011, David Fincher directed the American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, with Craig as Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth. The adaptation garnered critical acclaim and became the subject of controversy for its graphic depiction of sexual abuse and violence. The film received five Oscar nominations, winning for Best Film Editing.
Amazon previously ordered a television adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. However, the show never moved past development.
