Sony developing ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ follow-up without Daniel Craig

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.

Now TheWrap is reporting that Alicia Vikander of Ex Machina may be taking over the role of Lisbeth in a reboot.

Released in December of 2011, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo brought in over $230 million worldwide, despite a $90 million budget and hard-R rating. “Fire” is now expected to follow “Spider’s Web”, which Oscar-nominated writer Steven Knight (“Locke”) is in negotiations to adapt for the studio. She’s got plenty to keep her busy for now, anyway: she’s back on our screens this week alongside Bradley Cooper in Burnt, is drawing awards talk for The Danish Girl (out 1 January), has the next Bourne film due July 29 next year and stars with Michael Fassbender in The Light Between Oceans (which isn’t out until January 6 2017). (That is, whether these are new versions of the characters, like Tom Holland is to Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man, or just recast versions, like Mark Ruffalo is to Ed Norton’s Hulk.) Which is probably the best way to go at this point. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker-a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. She, as usual, has her own agenda.

The saga surrounding Larsson’s novels and their adaptations continues to have real-world twists and turns that are worthy of the fictional plots themselves. Larsson passed away in 2004 and it was only after his death that his completed but unpublished novels were discovered.

Sony is now set to skip the second and third books in the series, and instead jump ahead to The Girl In The Spider’s Web.