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) enjoyable and completely unnecessary". Rene Rodriguez of "The Miami Herald" said that the "fabulously sinister entertainment" surpassed the original film "in every way". The film took two and a half stars from "Rolling Stone" commentator Peter Travers, who concluded: "Fincher's "Girl" is gloriously rendered but too impersonal to leave a mark." A. O. Scott, writing for "The New York Times", admired the moments of "brilliantly orchestrated" anxiety and confusion, but felt that "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was vulnerable to the "lumbering proceduralism" that he saw in its literary counterpart, as evident with the "long stretches of drab, hackneyed