The Girl in the Spider's Web (film) The Girl in the Spider's Web (film) The Girl in the Spider's Web is a 2018 crime thriller film directed by Fede Álvarez and written by Álvarez, Steven Knight, and Jay Basu, based on the novel of the same name by David Lagercrantz, which in turn is based on characters in the book series by Stieg Larsson. The film acts as both a soft-reboot and a sequel to David Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", as the second installment in the American-produced "Millennium" film series. It stars Claire Foy, taking over the role of Lisbeth Salander from Rooney Mara,
The Eyes of the Dragon that the novel was "more elegant than any other novel Mr. King has written so far." Some of King's established fans rejected the novel, considering it a children's book - King originally wrote the novel for his children. Another reason for fan rejection of "The Eyes of the Dragon" was the fact that it was epic fantasy, with little to no elements of the horror that typified King's most successful work of this era. Negative fan reaction to "The Eyes of the Dragon" was an inspiration for King's subsequent novel "Misery". The protagonist of "Misery" was a successful romance novelist