Last week, there was news that Sony is developing a new film in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, but it would be without Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig. But apparently, no one has told Mara this.
In an interview with E! News while promoting Carol, Mara said that she hasn’t been told anything about not reprising her Oscar-nominated role as Lisbeth Salander.
“As far as I know I'm doing it until someone tells me otherwise,” Mara said.
Clearly, it sounds like Mara really want to play Salander again, even though she told E! News in February that she didn’t think she would ever play the role a second time.
"I'm doing it unless someone tells me that I'm not—and then I still might do it,” Mara told E! News this week.
On Nov. 4, it was reported that Sony is developing a film adaptation of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, which was written by David Lagercrantz and follows the three books in the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series. The movie would be written by Steven Knight (World War Z) and would not star Mara or Craig.
Even though Steve Zaillian already wrote a screenplay for an English adaptation of The Girl Who Played With Fire, Sony has been apprehensive about making a direct follow-up to David Fincher’s 2011 adaptation of Dragon Tattoo. The hard-R-rated movie cost over $90 million to make, made $233 million worldwide and was nominated for five Oscars (winning for editing). But all that was not enough to convince the studio that making Played With Fire right away was a good idea.