Stieg Larsson - Film and Hype
Posted on January 25, 2008
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Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With The Dragoon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and the title of the third volume still to be decided for the English translation) is hot stuff. The sales figures to date are stunning (from Shotsmag):
2.1 million copies sold in Sweden* (the paperback of Volume III is not yet released). 50,000 copies were subscribed of the audio book of Volume III a month before the book publication — a remarkable symptom of the impatience of Swedish readers of the trilogy. 121,200 audio books have been sold in total of the three volumes.
Denmark*: 500,000 copies sold. The hardback of Volume III has only just been published in an initial print-run of 110,000 copies which sold out in two days. The publisher, Modtryk, says that only the Bible has sold more copies than Larsson’s books in Denmark.
Norway*: 333,600 copies sold until now of Volume I (h/b and pb) and volume II (h/b only to date). Volume III is to be released in November. It was due to be published in March ‘08 and brought forward to November ‘07 due to pressure from readers and because of the dramatic level of sales of the Swedish edition in Norway.
Germany: 150,000 copies sold so far of Volume I (h/b and pb) and the h/b of Volume II.
France: 207,000 copies have been sold of all three books. Actes Sud now selling approx 3,000 and 4,000 copies of Larsson books every day.
Not forgetting Sonny Mehta of Knopf in the US, who beat off five other publishers for this extraordinary trilogy with a high six figure offer.
* Sweden population 9 million, Denmark 5.5, Norway 4.6.
The Swedish film production company Yellowbird, will be producing the film version of the Millennium Trilogy. Shooting will start in March 2008 and they hope to finish by December 2008, with the aim of having them ready for release in all Scandinavian countries in the beginning of 2009. They will then run on Swedish television by Nov/Dec 2009. The DVD version will have multiple language sub-titles (mainly Scandinavian languages and possibly another featuring English sub-titles). The main cast features Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander and Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist. There is also interest from different producers in France and the US for the English production rights, but these have not been sold yet.
See also the Stieg Larsson page at ScandinavianBooks.
– Peter
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