The Girl With Dragon Tattoo Series Adds Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin, James D’Arcy
Sky have announced The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series has officially started filming. It seems The Vanger family has it’s Henrik Vanger, Jonathan Pryce.
As filming takes place in Sweden and Lithuania, Sky reveal more cast members to the Eight Part series on Stieg Larsson’s globally bestselling Millennium novels. Joining Pryce in the Vanger clan will be James D’Arcy as Martin Vanger, Lena Olin as Isabella Vanger, Camille Cottin as Erika Berger, Alun Armstrong as Harald Vanger, Jessica Raine as Cecilia Vanger and Paul Ready as Birger Vanger.
Based on the first novel in the Millennium series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo follows cancelled star journalist Mikael Blomkvist and uthe girl with the dragon tattooncompromising 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.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo franchise has already been adapted twice before. First was back in 2009 when Niels Arden Oplev directed the film version starring Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth. There was a mini series made for Swedish television which extended the theatrical version. In 2011, David Fincher would make the a Hollywood reboot with Rooney Mara as ‘the girl’. 2018 Fede Alvarez directed The Girl With Spider’s Web staring Claire Foy in lead role, reception was mixed moving more into the action genre.
The series promises to bring the story into the present day, retaining 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 leading roles of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist this time will be played by Viola Prettejohn and David Oyelowo.
The other ensemble cast previously announced includes Ariyon Bakare as Palmgren, Lee Ross as DI Gustaf Morell, Steve Wall as Otto Falk, Justin Salinger as Bjurman, Allan Corduner as Dirch Frode, Rochenda Sandall as Armansky, Naomi Townsend as Mimmi. WuIngrid Keighley as the young Harriet Vanger, Danny Horn as the young Henrik Vanger, Lucy Brown as the young Isabella Vanger, Alastair Natkiel as the young Harald Vanger, Ewan Labram as the young Martin Vanger, Joseph Mason-Coombs as the young Birger Vanger, Daniella Arthur-Kennedy as Pernilla Blomkvist, Enzo Cilenti as Greger Beckman, Dónall Ó Héalaí as Anders Ahlund, and Lochlann Ó Mearáin as Gottfried.
Meghan Lyvers, Managing Director, Scripted Originals, Sky, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome such an extraordinary ensemble cast to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The Vanger family, with its bitter rivalries and deeply buried secrets, sits at the heart of one of fiction’s most compelling mysteries, and our eight-part adaptation gives us the opportunity to explore this fascinating dynasty in greater depth than ever before.”
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be available on Sky in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Sony Pictures Television will handle international distribution.
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