MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment is all set to close a deal to make a English-language remake Millennium Series that is based on the late Swedish writer Stieg Larsson‘s crime novels.

Scott Rudin was instrumental in securing the rights and is attached to produce alongside Ole Sondberg and Soren Staermose of Yellow Bird Films, the company behind the Swedish Millennium films.

The first film in that series was the smash hit The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (pictured), which went on to gross more than $100m in Europe alone and is being released in North America through Music Box. The second two entries are The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet‘s Nest.

Yellow Bird‘s Mikael Wallen and Anni Fernandez will serve as executive producers on the English-language productions, which centre on the unique crime-solving pair Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist and investigator and Lisbeth Salander, a punk computer hacker with a photographic memory.