DC Entertainment announced this morning via its Source Blog that they’ve secured the rights to adapt Stieg Larsson’s enormously popular Millennium Trilogy for the comics medium. It all starts in 2012 with two volumes devoted to the first novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Four more volumes will follow in 2013 and 2014, adapting The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest. The series will be published under the Vertigo imprint in both print and digital formats.
A creative team or teams has yet to be announced. Whoever they are, they’re likely gonna sell a lot of comics in the next couple years.
But even without a writer or artist attached to this announcement, it’s clear that this is a major get for DC Entertainment and Vertigo. The Millennium Trilogy is already a worldwide publishing juggernaut, and David Fincher’s English language film adaptation will stoke those flames yet again in December. Do this right–or even kind of right–and DC’s got a lucrative six-part series ready for mainstream readers.
Me, I’m a big fan of the series and Salander as a character. This could go a couple of different ways, but for now I’m hopeful for the prospects. Especially a visual representation of Lisbeth’s legendary trip to Ikea from the second book.
So, who’d you like to see take on this high profile project?
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I look forward to ignoring that series of books in a totally new format
You forgot to write “First!”
Glad to see Vertigo’s plans extending well into the future. I can’t even speculate who the creative team will be, a surprise no doubt!
They obviously didn’t get the memo after the Game of Thrones comics came out a few weeks ago…Nobody cares.
Few people in comics, maybe. But these books are designed for people outside of the comics audience.
When was the last time a knights & squires genre comic sold? (Okay, maybe Demon Knights #1, but besides that…) So Game of Thrones is maybe a bad example. The action/intrigue genre of this property makes it a lot better suited to a comic-buying readership.
Plus, a TV mini-series is very close in nature to a comic. An adaptation from film to comic will be a different animal completely & may dispense with that “what was the point of this?” sentiment that went with GOT. Also, I heard the comic wasn’t very good.
Really enjoyed the Swedish trilogy set of movies that came out a few years back. I’d be willing to check this out. Really curious to see who DC tags as writer/artist.
Not a buyer myself, but I hope they just go direct to TPB because Joe StiegLarssonfan doesn’t want to buy a monthly floppy.
That’s what they are doing. (It says so in the article.)
That’s accepting that I read the article.
I could see J.T. Krul and Rob Liefield rocking this adaption hard! In all serious though I wouldn’t have thought many of the top DC/Vertigo writers would want to do a straight adaption like this.
I’ll stick with the books. 🙂
I’m confused. Why all the snark above? If these get people to check out a comic adaption (that don’t normally read comics) how is that bad? One of the comic books that I read more than any others at an early age was the digest size reprints of the Marvel Star wars comic (issues 1 to 3 I think). That one book kept my interest in comics hich lead to a lifelong love of the hobby.
Maybe I’m being dense and missing something.
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Ugh, that girly on the front page for this article makes me shudder. I think it’s the gnarly bangs. I find myself scrolling past it as fast as I can to get her off my screen. Ugh.
Different strokes.
Brian Wood as writer, straight up. Artist? Some foreign dynamo that we Americans have never even heard of. (That’s how Vertigo works, right?)
I love Brian Wood’ stuff however, these books have a highly involved and complicated plot. I don’t think a 200 page graphic novel could really capture what makes these books great.