THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB Trailer
Lisbeth Salander returns to the big screen with The Girl in the Spider’s Web, and it looks like her life is still very, very complicated.
Based on the book of the same name, this is the first time the movie versions have extended past Stieg Larsson’s original book trilogy. Sure, there has already been Swedish adaptations of the first three and an American version of the first, but Larsson’s creation has proven too striking to let die. That’s in no small part due to the character of Lisbeth Salander, who is such an amalgamation of outsider, put-upon character traits that she pushes the crime tales into a mythological arena. She’s symbolic of many things throughout the series, and in The Girl in the Spider’s Web it’s that very mythology that gets her into trouble.
Just as there have been previous screen adaptations there have also been previous actresses playing Salander, which leaves Claire Foy having to both follow their leads and cut out her own path. It was certainly an eyebrow-raising casting choice, as Foy is best known for playing the extremely reserved queen in The Crown. This will require her to do almost the exact opposite, and if successful, will go a long way to preventing her from getting typecast.
Even if Salander is captured well, the film still has to pull off the crime thriller genre that she exists in (see the failure of the later Swedish films), and this version got just the man to do it. Director Fede Alvarez blew away many with the luridness of Don’t Breathe, so he should be pretty comfortable with the series’ unabashed genre elements.
It’s always tough to restart a series, but The Girl in the Spider’s Web has the pieces in place to make it work.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web is directed by Fede Alvarez and stars Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, and Lakeith Stanfield. It will be released in the US on November 9th, 2018 and in the UK on November 21st, 2018. For international release dates, click here.
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