Sverrir Gudnason will be Mikael Blomkvist in Millennium’s “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”

After knowing that British actress Claire Foy would be the new Lisbeth Salander in the next Millennium movie The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018), now it’s official that Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason has been chosen to be Mikael Blomkvist. So the duo of stars of this new adaptation for the Stieg Larsson’s immortal characters is no mystery anymore, after being played by Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist in the original Swedish trilogy, and Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in the first American remake directed by David Fincher.

This new film in the saga will be directed and has been co-written by Uruguayan filmmaker Fede Álvarez, known for being responsible for Evil Dead (2013) and Don’t Breathe (2016). The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018) in the homonym book published in 2015 by David Lagercrantz, since the original creator of the series Stieg Larsson died in 2004. Together with Fede Álvarez, the screenplay is the work of Jay Basu, writer of Monsters: Dark Continent (2014), and Steven Knight, Oscar-nominated for the text of crime thriller Dirty Pretty Things (2002).

The plot for this movie tells how trying to get back his prestige as a fighter investigator, Blomkvist follows the trail of a professor who claims to have private information for the American secret services, he joins forces with hacker outlaw Lisbeth Salander in order to survive in the nest of espionage, crime and corrupt politicians they fall in once again.