Millennium Movies: Hollywood Films
The Hollywood adaptations of Stieg Larsson's Millennium book series offer English-language interpretations with high production budgets and international star power. David Fincher's 2011 adaptation of the first novel features Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, bringing a distinctly American filmmaking approach to Larsson's Swedish source material.
The 2018 sequel comes along as a soft reboot with Claire Foy taking over as Lisbeth Salander, adapting David Lagercrantz's continuation of the book series rather than Larsson's original work. While these films don't maintain strict continuity with each other, they represent Hollywood's attempts to bring the franchise to broader international audiences.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A disgraced journalist teams up with a brilliant but troubled hacker to investigate the decades-old disappearance of a wealthy industrialist's niece. Their investigation leads them into a web of dark family secrets and corruption.
The Girl in the Spider's Web
Hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist become entangled in a dangerous conspiracy involving spies and cybercriminals when they're tasked with recovering a powerful computer program.
Other Film Series
Alex Cross
Film adaptations of James Patterson's detective novels featuring forensic psychologist Alex Cross, spanning two connected films and a standalone reboot.
Bryan Edgar Wallace
A series of German crime thrillers produced by CCC Filmkunst in the 1960s-70s, marketed under the name of Edgar Wallace's son Bryan, featuring standalone mysteries with gothic atmosphere and masked killers.
Edgar Wallace
German crime thriller series from 1959-1972 that created a distinctive subgenre of atmospheric gothic mysteries, featuring recurring cast and iconic villains.
Escape Plan
An action trilogy following security expert Ray Breslin as he infiltrates and escapes from increasingly dangerous high-tech prisons.
Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective has been adapted across multiple eras, from early talkies to modern star-studded ensembles.
Scream
A meta-horror franchise following Sidney Prescott and others as they face various Ghostface killers, known for its self-aware commentary on slasher film tropes.