Amazon has a new series in development, Variety reports, and it will focus on the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, the hacker who first appeared in Stieg Larsson’s 2005 debut mystery-thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The show, which currently shares that book’s title, will effectively be a reboot, with a brand-new story and supporting characters. No casting news or prospective release date has been announced.
Larsson’s 2005 bestseller, published after his death, introduced Salander as an exceptionally talented hacker with a traumatic past. She’s said to have “hair as short as a fuse,” multiple piercings, and several tattoos, including a depiction of a dragon. In the first book, she helps magazine journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigate multiple murders.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been adapted twice before—as a 2009 Swedish film starring Noomi Rapace as Salander and directed by Daniel Alfredson, and as a 2011 American film, helmed by David Fincher, featuring Rooney Mara as Salander and Daniel Craig as Blomkvist.
Larsson’s two follow-ups, The Girl Who Played With Fire (2006) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2007) were also made into Swedish films in 2009. An American film of 2015’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web by Swedish writer David Lagercrantz, who continued Larsson’s book series, was released in 2018; it starred The Crown’s Claire Foy as Salander and wasn’t a financial success. Salander also appears in Lagercrantz’s The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017) and The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019).
The new Amazon series is set to be executive-produced by Andy Harries and Rob Bullock, who both have experience with book adaptations. Harries is currently an executive producer of the Starz series Outlander, based on Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling time-travel historical romances, and Bullock was a producer on the 2016 BBC adaptation of John Le Carré’s 1993 spy novel, The Night Manager.
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