DC Entertainment announced the creative team for a new graphic novel based on Stieg Larsson’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. Crime author Denise Mina will write the book. Lee Bermejo creates covers while Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti are the artists. It will be released in November 2012.
“Denise, Lee, Leonardo and Andrea have such great passion for the material and stylistically they’re a perfect match to bring it to comics life. Their beautifully dark and visceral work will certainly blow us all away,” said Karen Berger, executive editor, Vertigo.
Mina has written for Vertigo’s HELLBLAZER series and A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY graphic novel, also for Vertigo.
Lee Bermejo is known for BATMAN: NOEL, a follow-up to the hit JOKER. Bermejo has also worked numerous comic series including Vertigo’s HELLBLAZER. Leonardo Manco worked on Vertigo’s HELLBLAZER comic. Andrea Mutti worked on graphic novel THE EXECUTOR from Vertigo, and then on the DMZ comic series.
Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy feature computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist.
The U.S. film version directed by David Fincher starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara is currently in theaters.