Steig Larsson Books To Be Made Into Series Of Movies By Columbia

Wednesday 19th June

Steig Larsson Books To Be Made Into Series Of Movies By Columbia

Posted at 6:26PM Wednesday 14 Apr 2010

Sony Corp.'s subsidiary Columbia Pictures has bought the English-language movie rights to the popular Millennium trilogy by late crime novelist Stieg Larsson, a Swedish film production company said Wednesday.

More than 12 million copies of Larsson's trilogy, which starts with "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," have been sold globally.

Yellow Bird AB, which made Swedish-language movies based on the books, will work with Columbia Pictures on the Hollywood versions, for which filming is expected to start next year.

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