THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Claire Foy (First Man), Sverrir Gudnason (Borg vs McEnroe), LaKeith Stanfield (Get Out), Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049), Stephen Merchant (Logan), Claes Bang (The Square), Christopher Convery (film debut), Synnøve Macody Lund (Headhunters), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Cameron Britton (Day Out Of Days), Mikael Persbrandt (In a Better World), Andreja Pejić (film debut), Volker Bruch (The Reader), Saskia Rosendahl (Lore), Beau Gadsdon (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Carlotta von Falkenhayn (Too Hard To Handle)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Fede Álvarez (Don’t Breathe), director, writer; Jay Basu (Fast Girls) and Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), writers; Eli Bush (Ex Machina), Elizabeth Cantillon (Concussion), Berna Levin (Wildwitch), Amy Pascal (Molly’s Game), Scott Rudin (Lady Bird), Søren Stærmose (Zingo) and Ole Søndberg (Stockholm Marathon), producers; Roque Baños (In The Heart Of The Sea), composer; Pedro Luque (The Silent House), cinematographer; Tatiana S. Riegel (I, Tonya), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Lisbeth Salander (Foy), an anti-social computer hacker and vigilante, finds herself caught in a web of spies, cyber criminals, corrupt government officials, and her vengeful twin sister Camila (Hoeks)…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The second English-language adaptation of the bestselling book series, originated by the late Stieg Larsson, bypasses the second and third books and instead heads straight for a brand-new tale that sees Claire Foy take over as the titular Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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