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 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) "The Girl Who Played with Fire", although by August 2012 it was delayed due to changes being being done to the script, being written by Steven Zaillian. By July 2013, Andrew Kevin Walker was hired to re-write the script. The following year, Fincher stated that a script for "The Girl that Played with Fire" had been written and that it was "extremely different from the book," and that despite the long delay, he was confident that the film would be made given that the studio had "already has spent millions of dollars on the rights and the script". Mara was