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Foy performed The Queen within the first two seasons of The Crown
Claire Foy has "big shoes to fill" in taking up Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander, says the director of the primary Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie.
Denmark's Niels Arden Oplev mentioned the British actress was "fabulous" however steered it was "dangerous" to proceed Larsson's Millennium saga on display screen.
Foy can be seen later this 12 months in The Girl within the Spider's Web, based mostly on a sequel written by one other writer.
The 34-year-old is up for a Bafta TV Award later for her work in The Crown.
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Speaking on the Cannes Film Festival, Oplev insisted Swedish actress Noomi Rapace "will all the time be the enduring Lisbeth Salander".
Rapace performed Salander, a tattoo-sporting pc hacker with a darkish previous, in 2009's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its two movie sequels.
Rooney Mara went on to play the Salander character within the Hollywood model of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, launched in 2011.
The new movie, directed by Fede Alvarez, was shot earlier this 12 months and can attain UK cinemas in November.
Larsson, who died of a coronary heart assault in 2004, didn't stay to see his three Girl... novels grow to be an international publishing sensation.
In December 2013, his property commissioned Swedish author David Lagercrantz to pen a fourth instalment that was printed two years later.
Oplev, whose different movies embody the 2017 remake of Flatliners, mentioned each his movie and Rapace's portrayal had "influenced Hollywood tremendously".
"In some methods she was 10 years forward of the #MeToo motion," he went on, citing the scene the place Lisbeth takes inventive revenge on a male assailant.
Oplev instructed the BBC he hoped the brand new movie could be "character-driven" and that its makers "maintain the franchise".
The 57-year-old's subsequent undertaking will inform the story of Daniel Rye, a Danish photographer who was held captive by the Islamic State group for greater than a 12 months.
Oplev was talking at a Cannes press occasion organised by the Scandinavian movie fund Film I Vast.
The 71st Cannes Film Festival continues till 19 May.