The Guardian is reporting that Glaswegian crime novelist Denise Mina is adapting Stieg Larsson‘s Millennium Trilogy into graphic novel form for DC Comics. Mina’s collaborator on the Hellblazer comic, Leonardo Manco, is illustrating the adaptations, which will be published, two per original book, starting in 2012.
The horrific mystery novels—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest—became an international sensation, appearing after their author’s untimely death in 2004.
Mina tells The Guardian “The estate has given me free rein and I can change what I want… I think they think that enough people have read the books, and anyway, Larsson really loved comics. I’m not changing that much [but] I think for most women there are problematic aspects of the story… Lisbeth Salander is just a brilliant character. She is the main event for me. But she is a survivor of sexual abuse and I think every so often [Larsson] doesn’t realise how frightened she is most of the time. I wanted to put those bits in.”