Niels Arden Oplev is a writer

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

-director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 from Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

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Biography

He directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the film based on Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson

Karl Stig-Erland Larsson , who wrote professionally as Stieg Larsson, was a Swedish journalist and writer, born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå. He is best known for writing the "Millennium series" of crime novels, which were published posthumously...

's novel of the same title and won critical acclaim internationally. Oplev decided to not continue directing the second and third parts of the Millennium Trilogy

Millennium Trilogy

The Millennium series is a series of bestselling novels originally written in Swedish by the late Stieg Larsson. The primary characters in the series are Lisbeth Salander, an intelligent, eccentric woman in her twenties with a photographic memory and poor social skills, and Mikael Blomkvist, an...

 due to time constraints. The film has broken box office records in Europe, grossing over $100 million USD.

He is set to direct The Keep based again on the novel with the same name

The Keep (Jennifer Egan novel)

The Keep is a novel by Jennifer Egan which became a National Bestseller, a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book, and a Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, and Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year...

 and Good People based on the novel by Marcus Sakey

Marcus Sakey

Marcus Sakey is an American author.-Personal life:Sakey was born in Flint, Michigan, and settled in Chicago with his wife after marriage. Before becoming a writer, Sakey used to run a graphic design company in Atlanta.-Novels:...

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Filmography

• Portland (1996)
• Chop Chop (Fukssvansen, 2001)
• The Eagle
  The Eagle (TV series)
  The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark...
  
  ("Ørnen", 2004)
• We Shall Overcome (Drømmen, 2006)
• Worlds Apart
  Worlds Apart (2008 film)
  Worlds Apart is a 2008 Danish drama directed by Niels Arden Oplev and written by Oplev and Steen Bille. The film stars Rosalinde Mynster and Pilou Asbæk. Based upon a true story, the film is about a 17-year-old Jehovah's Witness girl who struggles to reconcile her faith and her secret romance with...
  
  (To verdener, 2008)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor, 2009)

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