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Adrienne Tyler is a movies & TV features writer, with a focus on horror. She has written for Netflix, FanSided, & more. She was a regular guest on the Netfreaks podcast and was a YouTuber at some point. Guillermo del Toro said “hi” to her once.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is getting a TV adaptation, which might sound familiar as Amazon was developing one not long ago. Back in 2005, the Swedish psychological thriller novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (which, in Swedish, is titled Men who hate women), by Stieg Larsson, was published, and it went on to become an international bestseller.
The success of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo led to two movie adaptations – a Swedish one starring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace, and David Fincher’s English language adaptation with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara – as well as a Swedish six-part TV miniseries that also adapted the following two novels.
Now, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is getting another TV adaptation, but this announcement might sound repetitive as Amazon was already in the process of adapting the novel to TV, but this upcoming project isn’t attached to Amazon.
Sky Is Developing A Girl With The Dragon Tattoo TV Show
A bit over two decades after the novel’s publication, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is finally getting an English-language TV adaptation thanks to Sky. As reported by Variety, Sky has commissioned a TV series adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, with Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna writing and executive producing.
According to Variety, production on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo will begin in spring, in Lithuania, and at the time of writing, there are no names attached to star in it. Before Sky’s project, Amazon was developing a TV adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but Sky is already many steps ahead than Amazon ever was.
Amazon's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo TV Show Didn't Go Past Development
In 2020, it was announced that Amazon was developing a TV adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, though with a twist. The first details about it described it as a standalone, contemporary reimagining of the novel, thus not being a direct adaptation of Larsson’s novel (nor any of the sequels by Larsson).
However, it took too long for Amazon to offer more updates on the status of its The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo project, and though it announced a new showrunner in 2023, ultimately it never went past its early development stage. It’s safe to say now, with Sky’s announcement, that Amazon’s plans for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo are over.
Sky Has A Huge Challenge Ahead With Its Girl With The Dragon Tattoo TV Show
As exciting as Sky’s announcement of an adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is, it has a major challenge ahead. The Swedish adaptations of Larsson’s Millennium trilogy are very well-made and loyal to the source material, and Fincher’s adaptation was also incredible, with just a couple of changes to the novel.
However, the franchise went through a rough patch with the 2018 adaptation of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the first novel in the series not written by Larsson. As hard as it sounds, I have to say that the novel is nothing like Larsson’s Millennium trilogy and it even feels insulting to what Larsson built, and the movie wasn’t any better.
Sky’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo TV show has the double challenge of the high bar set by the Swedish movies and Fincher’s adaptation while also having to make up for the mess that was The Girl in the Spider’s Web. I’m optimistic about Sky’s take on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and, hopefully, it won’t have the same fate as Amazon’s project.
Source: Variety.
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