Swedish actor joins Claire Foy in the Sony Pictures adaptation of the Millennium film The Girl in the Spider’s Web, co-produced by Sweden’s Yellow Bird.   

Gudnason had his international breakthrough in Borg McEnroe after a series of critically-acclaimed roles in other films including Pernilla August’s A Serious Game, PJens Östberg’s Blowfly Park and Mikael Marcimain’s Gentlemen.

According to Variety, Gudnason will reprise the role of Mikael Blomquist played in the previous English language Millennium film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Daniel Craig and in the original Swedish version by Mikael Nyqvist.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web is based on the best-selling book of the same name by David Lagercrantz who continued the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy.

The US film directed by Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe) is set to start filming in January, for an October 19, 2018 theatrical release.