Claire Foy Is Lisbeth Salander in the New Trailer for 'The Girl in the Spider's Web'

Claire Foy stars alongside Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, and Stephen Merchant in the adaptation of Stieg Larsson's global bestselling novel.

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The trailer for The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the sequel to the 2011 movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, just dropped today. The movie, a first-time adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling novel of the same name, will star Golden Globe-winner Claire Foy, most well known for her excellent performance as Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s The Crown, as Lisbeth Salander, the badass vigilante at the center of the Millennium novels. The role was previously played by Rooney Mara

Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, and Stephen Merchant star alongside Foy. The movie will be directed by Fede Alvarez, who also helmed 2016 thriller Don’t Breathe; Alvarez also had a hand in adapting the screenplay, along with Steven Knight and Jay Basu. 

The general plot of the movie is still hazy, but the book follows Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist years after the events of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, when the two find themselves entangled in a web of spies, cybercriminals and government corruption. 

The film is set to hit theaters on Nov. 9. 

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