"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is getting another book-to-movie adaptation by Sony, and Alicia Vikander has been tipped to play the lead role. Four years after the original hit theaters, the studio is looking to adapt "The Girl in the Spider's Web," the fourth book in the Millennium series, written by David Lagercrantz following Stieg Larsson's death, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Sony Pictures had initially planned to adapt "The Girl Who Played With Fire" first, but the project has been put on the back burner and is expected to be released after "The Girl in the Spider's Web," with Steven Knight of "Burnt" and "Locke" fame in negotiations.
Vikander will replace Rooney Mara, who received a best actress Oscar nomination for "Dragon Tattoo," as hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander in the film and director David Fincher and actor Daniel Craig are also unlikely to return for the sequel. Scott Rudin and former Sony chief Amy Pascal will produce the "The Girl in the Spider's Web," along with Elizabeth Cantillon and Swedish production company Yellow Bird, which produced the original movie starring Noomi Rapace, The Wrap reported.
The film's story follows "hacker Lisbeth Salander and investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist as they find themselves at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt governments," according to Variety.
Vikander recently starred opposite Bradley Cooper in "Burnt" and is set to feature in the upcoming fifth film in the Bourne franchise.
