by Murtada
Claire Foy is confirmed to be the new Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sequel, The Girl in the Spider’s Web. Rumours have been flying about Foy playing the part since the spring, but it has now become official. Foy will become the third actress to play the iconic part of the tattooed pierced hacker. The film will team Foy with director Fede Alvarez, who helmed 2016’s Don’t Breathe. The plan is to release in October of next year.
Of course one can’t process this news without thinking of Rooney Mara. When news of this reboot was first reported last November, she announced her interest...
As far as I know I’m doing it until someone tells me otherwise. And then I still might do it!
Then way before that, the Sony hack gave us her heartbreakingly polite inquiry to the suits behind the sequels. Remember that? However we’d venture to say Mara will be alright. She already has both Therese Belivet (in Carol) and Lisbeth Salander, surely she wins at getting great roles.
In addition, this movie is not based on the two remaining books in the original trilogy, that she was expecting to make with David Fincher. The Girl in the Spider’s Web, published in 2015, is not authored by Stieg Larsson, the series’ creator and author of the first three Millennium books. Larsson died in 2004. This one was written after his death by David Lagercrantz, and the reviews for the book were mixed to positive. For all we know this sequel could be another Silence of Lambs / Hannibal situation. And nobody wants to be in that situation.
As for Foy, going from Queen Elizabeth II (in The Crown) to Salander could definitively show her range, so we get why she’d want to do it. She has big shoes to fill though, not just Mara but also the original Lisbeth Salander: Noomi Rapace who played the part in three Swedish-language films.
Who was your favorite Salander? And who would you cast to replace Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist?