Sony To Produce Millennium Trilogy

Published on December 16, 2009 by Martyn Conterio · View Comments

stieg_larsson Sony Pictures are finalising talks to grab their mitts on the English-language film rights to Swedish writer Stieg Larrson’s crime novels, the Millennium trilogy. The Hollywood Reporter have it producer Scott Rudin is behind the acquisition. Swedish film company Yellow Bird Films will act as executive producers. Columbia Pictures President Doug Belgrad announced:

“Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series is nothing short of amazing. The novels are very cinematically told, with fantastic characters and page-turning plots. Once you start reading, they are impossible to put down. Lisbeth Salander is one of the most compelling characters in contemporary fiction and we couldn’t be more excited about bringing this project to the screen.”

The U.S. films will not be remakes of the already-produced Danish-Swedish co-productions but return to the source material of Larrson’s novels. The film trilogy has been a sensation in Scandinavian countries and will be distributed worldwide in 2010. The writer died in 2004 and left behind three novels. They have since gone on to great acclaim after being published posthumously. Award-winning scriptwriter Steve Zaillian is in talks to adapt The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but no proper deal has been announced yet.

This could be a classy series of films, if done correctly. Scott Rudin and Steve Zaillian are known for their great and consistent output. Expect more news on this in early 2010.