'The Girl in the Spider's Web' Won't be a Sequel to 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
Collider recently sat down with Steven Knight, the screenwriter who is currently promoting Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard-starring World War II pic Allied, regarding the slow-moving sequel to the semi-successful studio adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Knight said that he had been commissioned to pen the script in collaboration with the studio. “A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in that you outline the story that you think should be told, and then you write it.
"And then, there are notes and you change it, in the conventional studio system. But, it was great fun to do because of the central character. With The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the girl is really the central character. She’s the whole thing. It’s not really Blomkvist.”
The Spider's Web skips a few books in the franchise of novels, so the film will have far less of a connection to the previous one. “It can be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so it is different, in that sense. It’s really taking a very strong central character and thinking, how do you execute this? It’s quite different.”
Source: Collider
