With the future of the Bond franchise currently out of Sony’s hands, the studio is keen to reboot another successful series that also starred Daniel Craig.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, there are plans to jump forward a few books and adapt The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the fourth thriller in the Millennium saga, written by David Lagercrantz but using characters created by the late Stieg Larsson.

Unlike David Fincher’s $90m Dragon Tattoo, Sony are keen to keep costs down and are aiming for a lower-budget reboot. Sources suggest that neither Craig nor his co-star Rooney Mara, who picked up an Oscar nomination for the role, would return. Fincher is also rumoured to be a no-show.

After Fincher’s film made $223m worldwide, Steven Zaillian was paid a mid-seven-figure salary to write a script for The Girl Who Played with Fire but it was deemed too expensive to make with the existing team. Given the money forked out for the script, the plan is now rumoured to involve Fire being produced after Spider’s Web.

Sony are currently in talks with Steven Knight to adapt. Knight is best known for Locke, TV’s Peaky Blinders, Eastern Promises and, most recently, Bradley Cooper’s failed foodie drama Burnt.

According to TheWrap, Ex Machina breakout Alicia Vikander is the current favourite to take on the lead role. Vikander is having a busy year, also featuring in Burnt, Testament of Youth and The Man From UNCLE. She is tipped to receive an Oscar nomination for her performance in transgender biopic The Danish Girl.