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  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a Academy Award nominated thriller directed by David Fincher 1 / 8

  • It follows hacker Lisbeth Salander as she teams up with a journalist to find a kidnapped girl. 2 / 8

  • Salander is played by Rooney Mara in the film in a performance that received high praise. 3 / 8

  • However, when the film got a follow up, neither Fincher or Rooney were asked to return. 4 / 8

  • The sequel, The Girl in the Spider's Web, went in a new direction. 5 / 8

  • Treated like a reboot, it adapted the fourth book in the series rather than the second. 6 / 8

  • Claire Foy ended up replacing Mara in the follow-up. 7 / 8

  • The Girl in the Spider's Web came out in 2018 to poor reviews. 8 / 8