New novel for 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' series
Swedish writer David Lagercrantz will pen a fourth installment in the 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' series originally written by Stieg Larsson, according to Larsson's publisher. It will be released in August 2015.
The American film version of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' starred Rooney Mara.
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A new book in Stieg Larsson鈥檚 鈥Girl with the Dragon Tattoo鈥 series, written by Swedish author David Lagercrantz, will be released in 2015.
Norstedts F枚rlag, Larsson鈥檚 publisher in Sweden, announced that Lagercrantz will be taking on the job and that the book will be released in August of that year.
鈥淲e are proud and excited to now have signed an agreement with David Lagercrantz who, urged by his agent Magdalena Hedlund, has undertaken the challenging task of providing Blomkvist and Salander a second life, in a fourth standalone part of the Millennium series,鈥 Eva Gedin, Norstedts F枚rlag鈥檚 publishing manager, said, according to .
Lagercrantz called the process 鈥渋nsanely fun,鈥 according to The Bookseller.
鈥淚t's an amazing world to step into,鈥 he said of Larsson鈥檚 novels.
Larsson, the original author of the series, died in 2004 but had reportedly planned to write 10 books in the series. A fourth was begun and his partner, Eva Gabrielsson, told the that Larsson had written 鈥渢he beginning of a fourth novel鈥 and that she believed he had written about 200 pages. Gabrielsson says she possesses the laptop on which the pages are stored, according to the . However, she didn鈥檛 think the manuscript could be published in its current form.
鈥淚t probably doesn't hang together,鈥 she told the BBC. 鈥淪tieg was a spontaneous writer, he could write scenes and not knit them together until later on 鈥 he just liked the scene. You can't call it a novel.鈥
After the new novel by Lagercrantz was announced, Gabrielsson told the that Norstedts F枚rlag had not had seen Larsson鈥檚 new novel beginnings and so Lagercrantz鈥檚 book would not be based on it.
She believes it is 鈥渄istasteful to try to make more money鈥 from the series, Gabrielsson said of the project, according to the BBC.
Gabrielsson was not married to Larsson and so, because of Swedish law, she did not receive anything through his estate after his death. His estate became the property of Larsson鈥檚 brother and father. She was offered a seat on the company board that is in charge of the author鈥檚 books as well as a settlement in 2009 but turned it down.聽
All three of Larsson鈥檚 鈥淕irl with the Dragon Tattoo鈥 books have become international bestsellers since his death and have been adapted into film twice, once in a Swedish three-part series starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. Hollywood took on the first book in 2011, with the American version starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig.