‘Girl with Dragon Tattoo’ Sequels Go International

…this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Hired by octogenarian industrialist Henrik Vanger, who wants to find out what happened to his beloved great-niece before he dies, the duo gradually uncover a festering morass of familial corruption… — Publisher’s Weekely In a unexpected decision, production company Yellow Bird and Swedish Television have agreed to release the two sequels to box office success “The Girl with Dragon Tattoo” theatrically worldwide. — Variety

So, I have not read any of these books and to be completely honest… don’t really “plan” to either. However, knowing nothing about the story before reading this news, I am actually excited to see these movies!

The story sounds very compelling, sort of a modern techno-fim noir concept that, with the write director and a good script adaptation could make for a kick-a** movie of the type we don’t see very often.

The first book in the trilogy is called ‘The Girl with Dragon Tattoo’ and the sequels are called ‘The Girl Who Played with Fire’ and ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest’. The two sequels were intended to be made into TV mini-series in Scandinavia, but after the box office success of ‘The Girl with Dragon Tattoo’ the producers have decided to think much bigger.

If all goes as planned, ‘The Girl Who Played with Fire’ will release theatrically in Sweden this September, followed by ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest’ in November. Time will tell how much international exposure these films will get and whether we get any significant theatrical release here in the States. If there’s a petition to bring it here, I’d gladly sign it!

[source: Variety]