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 in the Spider's Web (film) to the United States with August, Needham attempts to access Firefall, only to discover Lisbeth has already destroyed it, citing it is what Balder would have wanted, while Lisbeth later burns down her childhood home to destroy all traces of her father. In November 2015, "The Hollywood Reporter" announced that Sony Pictures Entertainment was planning to develop a new film series of the "Millennium" series, starting from the book "The Girl in the Spider's Web" by David Lagercrantz. Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, who portrayed Salander and Blomkvist, respectively, in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", would not be back