
However, Fincher's Dragon Tattoo failed to become the box office sensation it was expected to be and the franchise laid dormant for a few years until Sony announced a reboot of the film saga, skipping the next two Larsson books and adapting David Lagercrantz's The Girl in the Spider's Web instead. Once Hollywood jumped on the Stieg Larsson bandwagon, director David Fincher helmed the American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, casting Daniel Craig as Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Salander. Related: Every Mission: Impossible Movie Ranked They were so successful, in fact, that those iconic roles launched both actors' Hollywood careers: Rapace went on to star in Ridley Scott's Prometheus and David Ayers' Bright while Nyqvist played the villain opposite Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol before his death in 2017. The critically-acclaimed, original Swedish-produced film trilogy adapted Larsson's novels The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, with all three starring Noomi Rapace as Salander and the late Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist.
