Following the ever-growing trend of adapting novels for the screen, Sony is attempting to pick up the English-language rights to Swedish novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Dragon Tattoo focuses on an investigative journalist and a young computer hacker whose lives become intertwined and endangered as they seek to “expose institutions that pull the strings behind the scenes.” The story is the first of three novels in crime thriller series Millenium, by late author Stieg Larsson.
The first novel was turned into a Swedish-language film in February, and Sony became interested in making an English-language version fairly quickly, beginning to option for the rights this past summer. Due to a rights disputes between the author’s parents and longtime girlfriend, Sony has yet to seal the deal for the English version.
If Sony does get the rights to the film, Mikael Wallen and Anni Fernandez of Yellow Bird Films, the studio that made the Swedish version of the movie, will serve as executive producers. Steve Zaillian is in talks to write the script.
