The Girl in the Spider’s Web Movie Theatrical Trailer. In Stockholm, Sweden, vigilante hacker Lisbeth Salander is hired by computer programmer Frans Balder to retrieve Firefall, a program capable of accessing the world’s nuclear codes that he developed for the National Security Agency, as Balder believes it is too dangerous to exist. Lisbeth successfully retrieves Firefall from the NSA’s servers, attracting the attention of agent Edwin Needham, but is unable to unlock it.
The program is later stolen from her by mercenaries led by Jan Holtser, who also attempt to kill Lisbeth. When she doesn’t attend their scheduled rendezvous, Balder mistakenly believes Lisbeth decided to keep Firefall for herself and contacts Gabrielle Grane, the deputy director of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo), who moves Balder and his young son August to a safehouse. Meanwhile, Needham tracks the unauthorized login to Stockholm and arrives to seek Lisbeth and Firefall.
Lisbeth asks her hacker friend Plague for help and they contact Lisbeth’s former lover, investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist, for help identifying her assailants. Blomkvist learns Holtser previously worked for Lisbeth’s late father, crime lord Alexander Zalachenko, and is now affiliated with an elusive international crime syndicate known as “The Spiders”.
Lisbeth puts surveillance on Balder’s safehouse, and when it is attacked, intervenes to protect Balder and his son. She is intercepted by Holtser, who kills Balder, frames Lisbeth, and kidnaps August. Lisbeth pursues them in a stolen police car and is able to rescue August and take him to another safe house, where she confirms that he is the only one capable of unlocking Firefall.
Elsewhere, Needham locates Lisbeth’s girlfriend Maria and persuades her to arrange a meeting between them, intending to lure Lisbeth into a trap, but Lisbeth manages to evade him, and Needham is later arrested by Grane. Lisbeth helps him escape in exchange for Needham safely escorting August back to the United States to be reunited with his mother, and begrudgingly agrees to give him Firefall as well.
The Spiders later attack Lisbeth’s safe house and kidnap August once again. Lisbeth and Blomkvist manage to escape, and Lisbeth learns that their leader is her twin sister Camilla Salander, whom Lisbeth believed to be dead. When they were children, Lisbeth decided to run away from their abusive father, and when Camilla hesitated, Lisbeth left her behind. After years of torture, Camilla faked her suicide and went underground to form the Spiders.
Camilla and the Spiders take August to her base of operations at hers and Lisbeth’s childhood home. Grane had hired the Spiders to retrieve Firefall for her and informed them of Balder’s location, but Camilla kills Grane instead. Lisbeth, Blomkvist, Plague and Needham track August to the building, and Lisbeth breaks in to give Plague access to the building’s surveillance system, but is caught and taken to the room where August is being held, where she learns that Blomkvist has also been captured.
When Camilla threatens to torture him. Lisbeth tells August to trust her and reveal the password to Firefall. Camilla then tries to suffocate Lisbeth by wrapping her in a rubber coating and suctioning out all the air, while describing the abuse she suffered at the hands of their father.
Armed with a sniper rifle and guided by Plague, Needham eliminates Camilla’s henchmen, saving August and Blomkvist, while Camilla escapes with the laptop containing Firefall. Lisbeth escapes, kills Holtser and pursues her sister to a nearby cliff, where Camilla tearfully asks why Lisbeth never returned for her. Lisbeth claims Camilla chose their father over her the day she did not escape with Lisbeth, and Camilla, realizing the monster she has become, commits suicide by jumping off the cliff, leaving the laptop in the snow.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018)
Directed by: Fede Álvarez
Starring: Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, LaKeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Synnøve Macody Lund, Christopher Convery, Cameron Britton, Andreja Pejic, Vicky Krieps, Mikael Persbrandt
Screenplay by: Jay Basu, Fede Álvarez, Steven Knight
Production Design by: Eve Stewart
Cinematography by: Pedro Luque
Film Editing by: Tatiana S. Riegel
Costume Design by: Ellen Mirojnick, Carlos Rosario
Set Decoration by: Yesim Zolan
Art Direction by: Susannah Brough, Daniel Chour, Sabine Engelberg, Tarnia Nicol, Denis Schnegg
Music by: Roque Baños
MPAA Rating: R for violence, language and some sexual content / nudity.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: November 9, 2018 (United States and Canada), November 21, 2018 (United Kingdom), November 22, 2018 (Germany)
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