2011’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo did not spark the franchise that Sony was hoping for and plans to adapt the second book in the Millennium series The Girl Who Played With Fire were promptly shelved. However, it now looks like the series will return, only without Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara or director David Fincher. Instead, the studio is reportedly heading down the reboot route, with Locke's Steven Knight making a deal to adapt The Girl In The Spider's Web.
According to The Wrap, Alicia Vikander is the top choice to replace Mara as the series' heroine, Lisbeth Salander, though it's all still speculation at this stage.
The Girl In The Spider’s Web is the fourth novel in Larsson’s Millennium series and wasn’t written by the late author at all, but by David Lagercrantz, hired by his estate to continue the books. Films adapted from Larsson’s own books aren’t entirely off the table either if Spider’s Web goes ahead and is a success, as Sony has a screenplay for The Girl Who Played With Fire, adapted by Dragon Tattoo screenwriter Steve Zaillian waiting to be used.
It remains to be seen whether Vikander ends up in the Salander role. 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).