Scottish crime novelist Denise Mina, the “Queen of Tartan Noir,” will be writing DC Comics adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s worldwide smash The Millennium Trilogy.  DC’s Vertigo imprint will publish two graphic novel volumes a year starting in 2012, with each graphic novel volume chronicling half the events in one of Larsson’s novels.  The six-volume Vertigo adaptation will conclude in 2014 (see “Vertigo to Publish ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Graphic Novels”).

 

Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy has been just about the hottest literary property of this new millennium with over 60 million copies sold worldwide including 17 million in the U.S. alone.  A Hollywood adaptation of the first novel in the series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is due to debut later this month (a trio of Swedish films already appeared and garnered worldwide praise).

 

According to the Scotsman.com, Mina was selected by Larsson’s estate to adapt the novels for DC Comics (other comic book adaptations in different languages appear to be happening independently).  Mina, who has published nine crime novels including Field of Blood, which was recently adapted into a BBC TV series, has also written a 13-issue run on Vertigo’s Hellblazer comic as well as A Sickness in the Family, a graphic novel published as part of the Vertigo Crime line.