Scarlett Johansson And Natalie Portman In Line To Play Lisbeth Salander In THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB
David Fincher will not be returning to helm The Girl in the Spider's Web, and it doesn't look like Rooney Mara will be back, either. However, Sony does have some interesting replacements in mind...
We held out hope for a few years, but it's now been officially confirmed that David Fincher won't be finishing the trilogy he began back in 2011 with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Sony has announced that the plan is to skip the next two books in Stieg Larsson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy, and move forward with the fourth installment, The Girl in the Spider's Web.
Though this technically means that they'd be continuing the story, it looks like the movie is being set up as a soft reboot. According to the press release, Fede Alvarez is now attached to direct, working off a script he wrote alongside Steven Knight and Jay Basu.
Perhaps even more disappointingly, it doesn't look like Rooney Mara is going to be returning as Lisbeth Salander - however, Variety does add that Sony are looking at both Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman as potential replacements.
What do you guys think of this news? Any interest in a follow-up to TGWTDT without Fincher or Mara's involvement? The Girl in the Spider's Web is set for an October 5, 2018 release.
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