Sony Pictures released a film adaptation of the first book in the Millennium series. Directed by David Fincher, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was released in 2011. Plans for sequels were ultimately scrapped. a b Segers, Frank (December 26, 2012). "Foreign Box Office: 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol' Finishes in Top Spot for Second Straight Weekend". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 3, 2012 . Retrieved July 4, 2012. The first book in the series was published in Sweden as Män som hatar kvinnor (literally " Men who hate women") in 2005. It was titled for the English-language market as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and published in the United Kingdom in February 2008. It was awarded the Glass Key award as the best Nordic crime novel in 2005.

Main articles: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) Sequel announced to Stieg Larsson's Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy". The Guardian. 4 October 2011 . Retrieved 29 November 2014. Every year, Vanger receives a framed pressed flower, the same type she always gave him on his birthday before disappearing. He believes her killer is taunting him. Blomkvist moves into a cottage on the Vanger family estate on Hedestad Island. Bronson, Eric, ed. (2011). The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN 978-0470947586.

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The Swedish film production company Yellow Bird created film versions of the first three Millennium books, all three films released in 2009, beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, directed by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev. The protagonists were played by Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace.

Ansedel för Erland Larsson och Gerd Dagny Vivianne Boström". www.forsling.eu . Retrieved 1 February 2023. Karin Smirnoff blir Millennium-författare: "Känns fint att fortsätta i Stieg Larssons anda" ". 6 December 2021.a b "The 4th Book - Stieg Larsson, the man behind Lisbeth Salander". stieglarsson.com. 2014. Archived from the original on 1 April 2010 . Retrieved 6 July 2014. Christopher Plummer as Henrik Vanger: Vanger is a wealthy businessman who launches an extensive investigation into his family's affairs. Despite calling the Vanger family "dysfunctional", Plummer said of the character: "I love the character of the old man, and I sympathize with him. He's really the nicest old guy in the whole book. Everybody is a bit suspect, and still are at the end. Old Vanger has a nice straight line, and he gets his wish." [17] Plummer wanted to imbue the character with irony, an element he found to be absent from the novel's Henrik. [18] "I think that the old man would have it," he opined, "because he's a very sophisticated old guy [...] used to a great deal of power. So in dealing with people, he would be very good [...] he would be quite jokey, and know how to seduce them." [18] Julian Sands portrays a young Henrik Vanger.