THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: LEAD CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR SKY DRAMA BASED ON STIEG LARSSON NOVELS
Sky announces that Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated David Oyelowo (Silo, Selma) and rising star Viola Prettejohn (The Crown, The Testament of Ann Lee) will lead The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the highly anticipated Sky Original series based on Stieg Larsson’s globally bestselling Millennium novels.
Oyelowo will star as journalist Mikael Blomkvist alongside Prettejohn as Lisbeth Salander, bringing the iconic characters to life for a new generation.
Produced by Left Bank Pictures (The Crown, Dept Q), the eight-part mystery thriller is a timely evolution of one of the world’s most celebrated literary thriller franchises, with the Millennium novels having sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.
Bringing the story into the present day, the series retains the characters, gripping mystery and investigative DNA of Larsson’s novels, while exploring how power, secrecy and misogyny take on new and insidious forms in an ever more connected digital world.
The series is written and executive produced by BAFTA-winning screenwriter and novelist Amanda Coe (Apple Tree Yard, The Trial of Christine Keeler), Steve Lightfoot (Behind Her Eyes, The Punisher) and Angela LaManna (The Haunting of Bly Manor, Behind Her Eyes), with Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard, Bob Marley: One Love) lead directing, alongside directors Andrea Harkin (The Trial of Christine Keeler, Time) and Amy Neil (Hanna, Hostage).
Based on the first novel in the Millennium series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo follows cancelled star journalist Mikael Blomkvist and uncompromising hacker Lisbeth Salander as they investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, who vanished more than three decades ago from the secluded island home of one of Sweden’s most powerful industrial dynasties.
As they delve deeper into the Vanger family’s buried past, their investigation draws them closer to a chilling threat unfolding dangerously close to them in the present.
Meghan Lyvers, Managing Director, Scripted Originals, Sky, said: “Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are two of modern fiction’s most iconic and compelling characters, and we’re thrilled to have Viola and David bringing them to life for a new generation...
"Our brilliant writing team, Reinaldo Marcus Green’s bold vision and our fantastic partners at Left Bank Pictures are creating a series that honours everything audiences love about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, while taking its characters, mystery and themes into a world that feels unmistakably of the moment. We can’t wait for audiences to experience it.”
Charlotte Moore, Executive Producer and CEO, Left Bank Pictures, said: “We are incredibly proud to have assembled a world class creative team to reimagine Stieg Larsson's masterpiece for a modern audience. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an iconic story with themes of power, corruption, justice and violence against women that feel even more timely today...
"In Viola Prettejohn and David Oyelowo, we have two extraordinary actors at the heart of this adaptation and really look forward to audiences enjoying their take on these compelling and complex characters.”
The series is written and executive produced by Amanda Coe, Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna.
