Directed by Fede Alverez, The Girl in the Spider’s Web will revolve around the young hacker Lisbeth Salander and the journalist Mikael Blomkvist. The Uruguayan filmmaker, known for films as Evil Dead and his new film Don’t Breathe, told Digital Spy that he is ‘very excited about it.’

Stieg Larsson fans were very surprised to see that The Girl in the Spider’s Web was announced as a sequel. It means that two of Larsson’s books will be skipped. The story will therefore not follow The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The first movie, starring Daniel Craig as Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Salander, couldn’t quite find the way to attract a big audience and didn’t put up the numbers the studio expected. This is probably the reason why the plans to adapt all three of Larsson’s books were stalled in the next years. If the actors will reprise their roles in the sequel is a decision that ‘has not been made yet’, said Alverez.

The script will be written by Stephen Knight (Peaky Blinders) and production is planned to start in January 2017.

The fourth book of the Millennium series, written by David Lagercrantz, is the first one not authored by Stieg Larsson, who passed away November 9, 2004. The book centres on Blomkvist and Salander who get tangled in a web of spies, cybercriminals and governments around the world. The two are faced with someone who is prepared to kill to protect it.