The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

● The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a brand new adaptation based on the thriller novel series written by Stieg Larsson. ● David Oyelowo plays Mikael Blomkvist, a shamed journalist tasked with writing the history of a powerful family dynasty. ● Rising star Viola Prettejohn joins him as the complicated hacker, Lisbeth Salander, who joins him as his investigation leads to the mystery of a missing niece. ● The series is set to begin filming in October 2026 in Lithuania and is coming soon exclusively to Sky and NOW.

In this brand new Sky Original series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will take Stieg Larsson’s series of global bestsellers and give them a contemporary twist.

Grounded in the characters and investigative DNA of Larsson’s Millennium novel series, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo brings the story into the present day, with themes that carry heightened relevance today.

In the original story, investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist’s career is in ruins when he is hired by a wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger to write their family history – and solve the 40-year-old mystery of his missing niece Harriet in the process. She vanished from the family island and is believed to have been murdered.

Mikael recruits the enigmatic hacker Lisbeth Salander to work on the case, and the pair uncover the sinister secrets lying in the Vanger family’s past.

The series will run for eight episodes.

Production for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is set to commence in October 2026 in Lithuania.

The release date is yet to be confirmed.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is produced by Left Bank Pictures. Steve Lightfoot (The Punisher, Behind Her Eyes, Spider-Noir) and Angela LaManna (The Haunting of Bly Manor, Behind Her Eyes) will write and executive produce the series.

Executive producers also include Andy Harries, Charlotte Moore and John Phillips for Left Bank Pictures and Sam Hoyle for Sky.

In September 2026, it was confirmed that the series will be led by David Oyelowo (Silo, Selma) as Mikael Blomkvist and Viola Prettejohn (The Crown, The Testament of Ann Lee) as Lisbeth Salander.

Speaking on the project, 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.”

More casting is set to be announced in due course.

Check back in here for updates as they come!

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the first in the Millenium book series, created by Swedish author, Stieg Larsson.

Larsson died in 2004 after completing only three of the 10 books he intended to write in the series. David Lagercrantz took over the story to pen the next three, with Karin Smirnoff then picking up the Millenium series and writing a further two to date.

To date, the books released in the series are:

• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2005)

• The Girl Who Played With Fire (2006)

• The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (2007)

• The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2015)

• The Girl Who Takes an Eye For an Eye (2017)

• The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019)

• The Girl in the Eagles Talons (2022)

• The Girl With Ice in Her Veins (2024)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is yet to be given a release date – please check in here for more information as it’s available.

Once it airs, it will be available exclusively on Sky Atlantic in the UK.

It will also be available to stream on service, NOW.