Quick! Name the last series of novels not meant for children that became a legitimate international phenomenon! If you answered with Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of crime novels, then I do believe you are correct. Already a massive success throughout Europe the triology is now being translated into English with the first two - titled as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire - already available on these shores. And already proving to be just as big a phenomenon on the silver screen as on the printed page, the trilogy is also being adapted to film as I type this with the first already a huge hit everywhere it has played and the second due to hit screens soon.
Here's how Amazon describes The Girl Who Played With Fire, in novel-form:
The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The fierce heart of this novel is Lisbeth Salander: the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who teamed up with crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This time, Lisbeth is implicated in a murder: her fingerprints found on the weapon used to kill two journalists the night before their explosive story about sex trafficking in Sweden was set to be published. Now, while Blomkvist—alone in his belief in her innocence—plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Lisbeth is drawn into a hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.
The first teaser arrived a little while back and has now been followed by a full theatrical trailer. Both are darkly slick stuff, the sort of sophisticated crime stories that we have to turn to Europe to get these days. Check both trailers below the break.
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Teaser
Worth mentioning is that the director is Daniel Alfredson, brother of Let the Right One In's Tomas Alfredson.
Holy shit that Alfredson family did alright with the upbringing. These boys are taking the world by storm.