‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’: Sky Get Series Remake Into Production This Spring After Amazon Version Stalls

You might remember that Amazon had been trying to get a series remake off the ground based on the beloved Millennium novels for years, “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” from the late author Stieg Larsson, featuring the badass Swedish hacker/private investigator Lisabeth Salander, but Sky has reportedly swooped in alongside Sony Pictures Television and Left Bank Pictures to get the thriller series filming this year.

This promising update hails from Variety, who add that filming is aiming to begin this spring in Lithuania. They also breakdown that the show will be available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria through Sky (also airs HBO shows overseas). Meanwhile, Sony’s Left Bank Pictures will be handling international distribution, as the show’s pre-sale efforts are now underway in America.

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A creative team assembled for the eight-episode Sky Original features Steve Lightfoot (“Spider-Noir,” “The Punisher,” “Hannibal”) and Angela LaManna (“The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “Behind Her Eyes”), who will both write and executive produce. Some of the other executive producers involved with the show include Andy Harries, Charlotte Moore, and John Phillips of Left Bank Pictures, alongside Sam Hoyle for Sky, Amy Pascal, and Scott Rudin.

An official description provided by the outlet says the show will go “into the present, grounded in the characters and investigative DNA of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels, with themes that carry heightened relevance today.”

The role of Salander was played by Noomi Rapace (“Prometheus”) in the oiriginal Swedish-made film trilogy that helped her break into Hollywood, Rooney Mara (edging out other hopefuls like Scarlett Johansson) nabbed a Best Actress Oscar nomination in the David Fincher remake (Sony Pictures famously turning down Fincher’s two sequels after a rather pricey development on the scripts), and Claire Foy (“The Crown”) would go on to replace Mara in Sony’s attempt to soft-reboot the franchise with Fede Álvarez (“Alien: Romulus”) behind the camera for “The Girl In The Spider’s Web.”

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At the moment, it’s unclear if this new series will attempt to coax those previous actresses back, but the assumption is that they’ll be casting a new person to play the complex character.