Sony is reportedly planning on a new film from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, but without anyone involved in the studio’s 2011 adaptation of the novel.
Instead, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony is talking with Steven Knight to adapt The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the fourth novel in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series. Larsson died in 2004, so the new novel was written by David Lagercrantz.
Sources for THR say that no one involved in David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo will work on Spider’s Web. Even stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig will not return. Sony thinks that Spider’s Web could be the start of a rebooted series, so they want to forget that the 2011 film happened.
Fincher’s film was written by Steven Zaillian and grossed $233 million worldwide. Still, the movie cost $90 million and Sony had been apprehensive about moving forward with the series. Mara, who earned an Oscar nomination for playing Lisbeth Salander, even said in February that she didn’t think The Girl Who Played With Fire would ever happen with her.
The idea of turning Spider’s Web into a film now makes the whole situation even messier because Zaillian already did write a script for Played With Fire and Sony spent seven figures on that. THR suggests that Played With Fire could be reworked as a follow-up to Spider’s Web.
All three of Larsson’s Millennium books were previously adapted to films in his native Sweden and starred Noomi Rapace as Salander. The third book in the series is The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest.
Knight is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who has worked on World War Z and directed Tom Hardy in Locke. He also wrote Robert Zemeckis’ next film, which will star Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.
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