Malin Rising| 04/14/10 | AP - Huffington Post
STOCKHOLM — 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.
Yellow Bird CEO Mikael Wallen said the movies will be produced by Scott Rudin whose credits include the Academy Award-winning "No Country for Old Men" while "Schindler's List" scriptwriter Steve Zaillian will adapt the books for the big screen.
Wallen said no director had been picked yet and did not specify the terms of the sale.
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