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9:37 pm - 12/16/2011
The acclaimed Scottish writer Denise Mina will pen graphic novels based on Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels.
Mina, who's latest novel is The End of the Wasp Season, is close to finishing the first book (Leonardo Manco will do the books' illustrations). Mina has a few changes in mind for her version of the series, which features the popular bisexual character Lisbeth Salander.
"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," Mina told the Guardian. "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."
Mina is no stranger to the kind of graphic violence portrayed in Larsson's novels, or to strong female characters. The End of the Wasp Season sets pregnant DS Alex Morrow on the case of the brutal murder of a young woman in Glasgow, while Mina's graphic novel A Sickness in the Family sees the Usher family die violently one by one.
The author has been getting up at five in the morning to complete the first adaptation in time for its March release date – but said that "it has been brilliant" adapting Larsson's work. "He wrote such a great story," she said. "And he truly understood what he was doing when he wrote a feminist crime novel."
Each title will be adapted into two graphic novels, with the Dragon Tattoo adaptation out in 2012 and the second and third novels to be adapted in 2013 and 2014. Dan DiDio, DC Entertainment co-publisher, has called the "intricate characters and stories" created by Larsson the "perfect match for the graphic novel format, where we can bring Lisbeth Salander to life in entirely new, visually compelling ways".
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I guess this seems promising. She sounds very nice, reminds me of a mix of Zoe Wanamaker/Judi Dench. Do you think it will work?
Scottish Writer Penning Dragon Tattoo Graphic Novel
The acclaimed Scottish writer Denise Mina will pen graphic novels based on Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels.
Mina, who's latest novel is The End of the Wasp Season, is close to finishing the first book (Leonardo Manco will do the books' illustrations). Mina has a few changes in mind for her version of the series, which features the popular bisexual character Lisbeth Salander.
"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," Mina told the Guardian. "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."
Mina is no stranger to the kind of graphic violence portrayed in Larsson's novels, or to strong female characters. The End of the Wasp Season sets pregnant DS Alex Morrow on the case of the brutal murder of a young woman in Glasgow, while Mina's graphic novel A Sickness in the Family sees the Usher family die violently one by one.
The author has been getting up at five in the morning to complete the first adaptation in time for its March release date – but said that "it has been brilliant" adapting Larsson's work. "He wrote such a great story," she said. "And he truly understood what he was doing when he wrote a feminist crime novel."
Each title will be adapted into two graphic novels, with the Dragon Tattoo adaptation out in 2012 and the second and third novels to be adapted in 2013 and 2014. Dan DiDio, DC Entertainment co-publisher, has called the "intricate characters and stories" created by Larsson the "perfect match for the graphic novel format, where we can bring Lisbeth Salander to life in entirely new, visually compelling ways".
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I guess this seems promising. She sounds very nice, reminds me of a mix of Zoe Wanamaker/Judi Dench. Do you think it will work?
i haven't read '...hornet's nest' yet but from the first two books, i know she mistrusts most men and is usually okay with women. it seems as though most of the people who have hurt her in the past were men in power so naturally she's leery towards those similar to that.....i think mimmi mentions that she knows/thinks that lisbeth isn't attracted to females sexually but simply enjoys sex and so she and gets it from people who she knows aren't major threats (in the second book she mentions the old man who just wanted to look at her naked).
i definitely think her SPOILER ALERT mother's abuse at the hands of her father definitely contributed to her being mistrustful of most men and probably why is more inclined to be drawn to women.