This Sunday, June 29 at 9:10 p.m., France 2 rebroadcast Millenium: which does not kill mea very singular adaptation of the saga imagined by Stieg Larsson. Directed by Fede Álvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe), this film released in 2018 does not resume the continuity of the Swedish trilogy carried by Noomi Rapace, or that of the American remake directed by David Fincher with Rooney Mara. It is actually an adaptation of the fourth volume of the literary saga, written after the death of Larsson by David Lagercrantz, who had been commissioned by the author’s family to continue his work. Claire Foy embodies a new version of Lisbeth Salender, solitary and justicier hackeuse, responsible here for recovering software capable of accessing the global nuclear arsenal, while facing rival organizations … and a sister as free as threatening.
But the result was not unanimous. During its first broadcast on France 2 in January 2023, the film had brought together only 2.13 million viewers, far behind The Tuche 3 broadcast simultaneously on TF1. A mixed reception which is explained in particular by the tone of the film, very far from the dark thrillers and anchored in the real which made the success of the first adaptations. “” “From Lisbeth salander, there is only one panoply: boots, leather and tattoo ”, summary Teleramawhich describes a feature film “Too openly mercantile”, Where the social dimension of the saga is sacrificed in favor of a stylized action thriller. For Cinemae, it’s “A Cook FailedT ”who led to pause the following projects in the cinema.
In addition disconnected and reboot under tension
So what to watch this evening on France 2? A real fourth component, or a disguised restart? What doesn’t kill me is located in an in-between: new casting, new tone, but always the universe of Millennium… In blockbuster version. Mikael Blomkvist is there (this time played by Sverrir Gudnason), just like Lisbeth, but in a version very far from his previous incarnations. A film that seeks to seduce an international audience, at the risk of losing the faithful of the early hours.
On the book side, the saga has also experienced twists and turns. After three volumes signed David Lagercrantz, Karin Smirnoff picked up the torch in 2022 with The girl in the greenhouses of the eagle. An unprecedented sequel, written by the Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, was abandoned by the publisher because of passages deemed “too explicit”. The text has since been reworked and published under the title The bloodstormbut only in Swedes. The next official publication will be called The girl in the claws of the lynxand promises to bring Lisbeth back to a register closer to his origins. In the meantime, it is a very “James Bond” heroine that you will find this evening at 9:10 pm.
