The 2018 film is titled The Girl in the Spider's Web. It is an action thriller directed by Fede Álvarez and based on David Lagercrantz's 2015 novel, which continued characters created by Stieg Larsson in the Millennium series.
The movie follows hacker Lisbeth Salander as she becomes involved with a dangerous program capable of accessing the world's nuclear codes. Claire Foy plays Salander, taking over the role after Rooney Mara portrayed the character in the 2011 film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The title is sometimes confused with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the earlier Millennium story. The 2018 film works as a soft reboot and sequel, with a new cast and a storyline drawn from the second phase of the book series. It premiered at the Rome Film Festival on October 24, 2018, and reached U.S. theaters on November 9.