The long-awaited sequel to 2011’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which starred Rooney Mara in the lead role of Lisbeth Salander, looks like it may be going ahead, and Fede Alvarez, director of the Evil Dead remake and this summer’s horror-hit Don’t Breathe, may be the man hired to helm.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web is the fourth novel in the ‘Girl’ series, with Sony opting to skip both The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest. According to trade paper Variety, the film will roll into production next year, now that it has a screenplay by Locke, Hummingbird and Taboo scribe Steven Knight.
The film will be based on the new novel by David Lagercrantz. Here’s the plot.
Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.
Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son’s well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story – and it is a terrifying one.
More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder’s world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker.
It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters – and a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millenniumteam, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves.
More on this as we get it.
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