By Travis Johnson
We’re gonna need another Lisbeth! Sony is moving forward with an adaptation of the fourth in the increasingly inaccurately named Millennium Trilogy, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, this time under the direction of Don’t Breathe shot-caller, Fede Alvarez.
This means we’re not getting American adaptations of the second and third books in Stieg Larsson’s Nordic noir series, with Sony jumping right ahead to the aforementioned tome, which was written by David Lagercrantz following Larsson’s untimely 2004 demise. We’re also not getting Rooney Mara back in the key role of punk hacker Lisbeth Salander, nor Daniel Craig as Marty Sue author insert* Mikael Blomkvist; the project will be recast from scratch.
This could work. The Millennium books are wildly popular, but they’re basically trashy exploitation novels with a veneer of European sophistication poured over them – Fede Alvarez is an exploitation filmmaker, after all, and his sensibilities might make a better fit for the material than David Fincher’s did on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Production kicks off in September, folks, with a release date scheduled for October 5, 2018. Speculate on casting in the comments.
*Absolutely true. No kink-shaming here, but Larsson maybe put more of himself on display in those books than he meant to.
