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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Veena Sud Set as Series Showrunner

Veena Sud (The Killing) will serve as the showrunner for Amazon MGM Studios & Left Bank Pictures' The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.

Remember back in May 2020 when we reported that Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television were developing a series focusing on the late author Stieg Larsson's popular The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo character Lisbeth Salander? Well, it's a little more than three years later, and we have an update courtesy of Variety. Veena Sud (The Killing, Seven Seconds) has been tapped to serve as the showrunner for the streaming series. Produced by Amazon MGM Studios & Left Bank Pictures (based at Sony Pictures Television), the series was originally reported not to be a sequel or a continuation of any storylines from the books or films. Instead, the project places Salander in our modern world with a new setting, new supporting characters, and new storylines (though we're expecting Mikael Blomkvist to play a big role). Left Bank Pictures founder and CEO Andy Harries (The Crown, Outlander) and Rob Bullock (The Night Manager, Wild at Heart) were originally announced to executive produce (though no writer or lead actors are currently attached).

A primary reason for the franchise's 100 million-plus book sales worldwide, Salander's literary life began with Larsson's three original "Millenium" novels: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. Following the original author's passing, David Lagercrantz would continue the series with The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, and The Girl Who Lived Twice. Karin Smirnoff would carry on the franchise with 2022's The Girl in the Eagle's Talons. On the film side, Salander has been portrayed by several actresses. Noomi Rapace played the role in the original Swedish film trilogy (with Tehilla Blad cast as a younger Salander), while Rooney Mara played the role in 2011's U.S. adaptation The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Claire Foy would go on to play the role in the 2018 film adaptation of The Girl in the Spider's Web. Michael Nyqvist, Daniel Craig, and Sverrir Gudnason, respectively, portrayed co-lead Mikael Blomkvist in the big-screen adaptations.

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