As a result, Sony put the franchise on ice for several years, ultimately deciding to move forward with The Girl in the Spider’s Web — which is not a direct sequel to Dragon Tattoo.
Though the film received a warm welcome from critics when it debuted back in 2011, David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo wasn’t necessarily a commercial smash.
Don’t Breathe’s Fede Alvarez was brought in to replace the Zodiac director behind the camera, and now it very much feels like Sony is more or less starting from scratch, despite Rooney Mara telling Yahoo Movies she would have returned.