British broadcaster Sky has commissioned a series adaptation of Stieg Larsson‘s smash hit novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Variety has learned.

Steve Lightfoot (“The Punisher,” “Hannibal”) and Angela LaManna (“The Punisher,” “Channel Zero”) will write and executive produce the eight-episode Sky Original.

The show will bring the 2005 psychological thriller into the present, grounded in the characters and investigative DNA of Larsson’s novels, with themes that carry heightened relevance today.

Filming is slated to commence in Lithuania this spring with Left Bank Pictures (“The Crown,” “Outlander”) producing.

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