Are you a fan of Steig Larsson's Lisbeth Salander books and have been anxiously awaiting another movie? You're in luck! Are you a fan of David Fincher's 2011 adaptation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and have been anxiously awaiting a sequel? You're not quite as fortunate. Here's what we know about the franchise moving forward:
So we're finally getting another movie in the Millennium series?
Yes, but it's not the second installment, The Girl Who Plays with Fire. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony is making a movie based on the recently published fourth book, The Girl in the Spider's Web, which was not written by Larsson (he died in 2004).
Is Rooney Mara returning as hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander?
No. Reportedly she's not interested if Fincher isn't coming back.
Fincher isn't coming back? What about Daniel Craig?
Craig is very unlikely to return as journalist Mikael Blomkvist, despite the studio having an option on him for sequels.
Okay, then who is on board for Spider's Web?
At this point, there's a screenwriter, Steven Knight, who earned an Oscar nomination for Dirty Pretty Things and also wrote Eastern Promises and Burnt and wrote and directed Locke.
Any names being mentioned for the cast?
According to The Wrap, Sony is eyeing Alicia Vikander, of Ex Machina and currently the Knight-scripted Burnt. However, that's just the studio's "thinking" at the moment, nothing official.
So we're getting a Millennium series reboot, then?
That's how it sounds, but it might be better to look at the Spider's Web adaptation as being like The Silence of the Lambs years after an unrelated adaption of Red Dragon (as Manhunter), meaning down the line we could actually get a new Dragon Tattoo with the new cast.
Or, it could also be like the Jack Ryan movies. THR quotes Spider's Web author David Lagercrantz as saying he sees Salander as similar to superheroes Spider-Man and Batman, both of which have also been recast at least twice so far.
Let's not forget that whoever fills Salander's shoes and piercings will be the third actress in the role, the first being Noomi Rapace, who broke out in the 2009 Swedish adaptation.
