The Girl in the Spider's Web has officially cast its new Lisbeth Salander
The Girl in the Spider's Web will adapt the fourth book in the Millennium series, famously not penned by creator Stieg Larsson
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The new sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl in the Spider's Web, has officially found its Lisbeth Salander.
Sony Pictures finally confirmed rumours that Claire Foy has nabbed the role, best known for playing Queen Elizabeth in the Netflix series The Crown (via The Hollywood Reporter); she even reportedly beat out Rogue One star Felicity Jones for the part.
Though the film, helmed by Don't Breathe's Fede Alvarez, will act as a direct follow-up to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it actually adapts the fourth book in the Millennium series - written by David Lagercrantz following the death of the original trilogy's author, Stieg Larsson, in 2004.
"I couldn't be more thrilled about Claire taking the reins of the iconic Lisbeth Salander," said Alvarez. "Claire is an incredible, rare talent who will inject a new and exciting life into Lisbeth. I can't wait to bring this new story to a worldwide audience, with Claire Foy at its center."
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has penned the screenplay, previously telling Collider: "With The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the girl [Lisbeth Salander] is really the central character. She’s the whole thing. It’s not really [Mikael] Blomkvist."
Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, who starred in David Fincher's 2011 remake of the original Swedish adaptation, had already been confirmed not to return; Craig was supposedly optioned for two more sequels, but demanded a pay raise that made his involvement impossible due to the studio's demands that Spider's Web be produced on a much lower budget.
Knight further teased how the two films will be different, including: "...A couple of books have been skipped, so it is different, in that sense. It’s really taking a very strong central character and thinking, how do you execute this? It’s quite different."
The Girl in the Spider's Web is set for release 19 October, 2018.
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