Sky to remake The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo as eight-part present-day series

Sky has announced it will remake Stieg Larsson’s 2005 novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo as an eight-part television series set in the present day, written by Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna and to be made by Left Bank Pictures. What remains unclear is who will play Lisbeth Salander, a role that has previously launched actors to wider prominence: Noomi Rapace was nominated for a Bafta for the 2009 Swedish version, Rooney Mara received an Oscar nomination for David Fincher’s 2011 film, and Claire Foy was praised for the 2018 adaptation despite not receiving Bafta or Oscar nominations.

The new series is due to go into production this spring and is filming in Lithuania, which the report says makes it likely the part has already been cast. The article offers speculative suggestions for Salander: Emma Corrin, praised for an “otherworldly intensity” and for playing Diana in The Crown, with a possible Left Bank connection; Jodie Comer, noted for performances in Killing Eve, Help and 28 Years Later with an ability to do accents; Anya Taylor-Joy, whose star-making TV role was The Queen’s Gambit and who the piece says could use a multi-episode format; Alba August, a Danish-Swedish actor who could provide geographical authenticity and was praised for Netflix’s The Rain; and Noomi Rapace, suggested as an intriguing repeat casting if the series were to portray older versions of the characters, the piece noting Rapace is now 46.

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Culture, Lisbeth Salander, Lithuania, Left Bank Pictures, Stieg Larsson, Steve Lightfoot