The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) less optimistic about the production of the sequels, though she stated that she was still contractually signed on to reprise the lead role. By November 2015, it was announced that Sony was considering rebooting the franchise, before settling on continuing the film series with an adaptation of "The Girl in the Spider's Web". The story is based on a 2015 novel by David Lagercrantz that was a continuation of the original "Millennium" trilogy after series creator Stieg Larsson died in 2004. Looking for a new lead in the series, Alicia Vikander was considered by the studio. The following year, Fede
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) welcome humor in Mikael's impassive affect". In his 2016 assessment of Craig's career for Taste of Cinema, Eoghan Lyng ranked this portrayal as one of his best. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" said the film was given a more assured quality than the original because of Fincher's direction and the lead performances, although he believed this did not always work to the film's advantage, preferring the original version's "less confident surface" where "emotions were closer to the surface." In addition to numerous awards, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was included on several year-end lists by film commentators and