While the Swedish original is great and Noomi Rapace is fantastic as Lisbeth, I don't get the reviews and people that call it flawless. It's a pretty uneven film in my opinion (I would like to see the unedited version that was shown on Swedish TV though to see if that is any better), and the film adapations only get worse as they go on. There's definite room for improvement here, and I'm quitely optimistic it will be considering the talent working on it, and I've NEVER said that about a remake before. Also, it's been confirmed the infamous scene with her Guardian Nils Burjman will be included, in fact, that was the scene that the actresses had to do for their audtion "to see if they had what it takes". Fincher has also said that the Salander is this film is more angry and tough and her softer side is displayed less often. Blomkvist's womanising has also apparantly been toned down.

Watching it the second time, i never found it to be as good as i originally thought. The plot isn't very great as a whole either.

apparently the trailer is playing before Hangover 2? not sure what countries though. Means it should be online soon.

Eeeee. Ridiculously excited for this, it had better live up to the standard of the Swedish original!

 

Looks fucking awesome. The Karen O/Trent Reznor cover of 'Immigrant Song' sounds incredible also.

Edited May 29, 201114 yr by ▲▲▲

Daniel Craig looks like a very good fit for the role, and I can recognise some scenes, particularly the part with the photograph. Looks very interesting, but I hope we get a trailer with dialogue soon.

Golden Globe winner Trent Reznor is doing the score for this <3

 

who?

who?

 

just some bloke, plays in a band called something like None Ich Nalz or sumthin.

 

 

 

OMG that cover of Immigrant Song is incredible.

here's the green band trailer, in proper quality:

 

 

 

i think it does look great, getting excited for it now, i can't wait to get my hands on a full length version of Trent's Immigrant Song though, sounds so good.

First official poster

 

http://i2.cdnds.net/11/22/550w_movies_girl_with_the_dragon_tattoo_poster.jpg

About 4/5s through the book. Such a brilliant book, a captivating thriller.

 

I'm going to watch the original Swedish film once I've finished the book. I've not read the ending of the book yet, but in the US remake they're going to change it? Interesting if so. Have a feeling this film will be good mind. It definitely does not look like it is going to clamp down on the darkness of the book.

I found the first book hard to get into at first, I actually stopped reading for a while, his prose can be so stodgy at times and he describes everything. To. The. Last. Detail. I couldn't give a f*** what type of Apple Mac Lisbeth is using or what type of coffee Mikael is drinking. It took me until the last half of the book before I really couldn't put it down, and it was purely because of Salander that I kept going at first (easily one of my favourite literacy characters ever) but if you think this one is good, your in for a treat with the second part; it's funny that even though he planned for 10 odd books it works rather well as a trilogy.

 

I've said it before, but the teaser trailer is probably one of the best I've seen, I've lost count of the times I've watched it; it'a bit of a nitpick but I wish they didn't change the "She's coming" in the red band trailer to just "Coming" though for the green band version.

 

This is my most anticpated movie easily, I cannot friggin' wait. I do love Rapace, but I think that Mara looks more in tune with how I imagined Lisbeth (like a scawny teenager), Daniel Craig is pretty much perfect casting and I think Fincher is going to give us a more satisfying movie than the Swedish adaption.

Edited July 19, 201114 yr by Daniel II

i read an interview with Craig recently saying that Fincher really isn't letting it be toned down at all, like it's mega dark.

 

 

Fincher is possibly my favourite director (or at least is one of them). so excited.

The interview he did with Esquire magazine? I'm so pumped after reading his comments.

 

Daniel Craig has admitted that he was so shocked seeing violent scenes in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that it made his jaw drop.

 

The star - who recently stunned friends by secretly marrying Rachel Weisz - insists movie fans are in for a shock with the violence and adult material in the eagerly-awaited blockbuster.

 

'It's as adult as you can possibly make it,' Craig warns.

The original Swedish adaptation of the best-selling novel featured incredibly graphic scenes, and it seems the Hollywood remake will follow suit.

 

'This is adult drama. I grew up, as we f***ing all did, watching The Godfather and that, movies that were made for adults.

'And this is a $100 million R-rated movie. Nobody makes those anymore.'

He also insists that David Fincher, who is directing the movie adaptation of Stieg Larsson's best selling thriller, is 'not holding back'.

 

'They've given him free rein,' he said.

 

'He recently showed me some scenes, and my hand was over my mouth, going, 'Are you f***ing serious?''

 

'It's not that he simply showed me footage that was horribly graphic - it was stuff that was happening, or had happened. And somehow you don't see it. There's more than one way to sense violence. Much more powerful ways than seeing it step-by-step.'

Here is another interesting article by Variety that shows just how happy the Swedish Film Industy are with Fincher's adaptions

 

More life in 'Girl' remake

Fincher revs up noir in his Sony pic

By Adam Dawtrey

 

The original Swedish version of 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' started a box office bonanza for producer Yellow Bird.

 

Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara star in the U.S. version of 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.'

Yellow Bird flies on 'Girl' profits

 

Hollywood remakes of foreign-language pics often create some distance from the original by tweaking the story or moving the setting to America, but filmmaker David Fincher seems unafraid to measure up directly against the popular Swedish "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

 

The original pic trilogy -- gritty and culturally evocative, and based on a blockbuster book series that seemingly put Swedish noir in every bookstore and e-reader around the world -- racked up big numbers for producer Yellow Bird: $235 worldwide box office, more than 5 million DVDs sold and 50 million TV viewers. It also focused a global spotlight on Swedish crime fiction, and helped boost and perhaps redefine the local film industry in a way that even Ingmar Bergman could not.

 

But far from softening or sentimentalizing the material for American tastes, signs are that Fincher's pushing the visceral anger and Swedish nihilism of Stieg Larsson's books to new extremes. Fincher's decision to shoot in Sweden underlines this.

 

Photos of Rooney Mara as the abused yet somehow invulnerable Lisbeth Salander, with her pierced nipples, shaved eyebrows and roughly chopped hair, make her look even more renegade than the role's originator, Noomi Rapace.

 

Sony is gambling that Fincher's edge is exactly what's needed to tempt the huge international audience of Larsson/Salander fans again, so soon after they saw the Swedish trilogy, bought the DVDs and watched the miniseries, as well as pulling in the post-literate "Social Network" generation.

 

In theory, Swedes would be the most skeptical about Hollywood's haste to remake their country's greatest hit. However, judging by the enthusiastic response at Stockholm's Cinematheque in May when Fincher unveiled the first trailer for his "Dragon Tattoo," the Swedes don't have any qualms about the new version.

 

The locals were already won over by Fincher's bold, some might say hubristic, decision to stay true to the Swedish essence of the novel and to film in Sweden.

 

"What I saw looked fabulous," says SVT drama topper Peter Gustafsson, who backed the original movie in his previous job as an SFI consultant. "The big question is whether the fact there's a Swedish film of the same book is going to make the audience not want to see it. But I think everyone will want to see how it is different."

 

In the U.S., the potential-R-rated route is often a challenge. But to Sony's advantage, the three films were not widely seen in English-speaking territories, with the Swedish movies seen by a fraction of those who read the books. The three novels have sold more than 17 million copies Stateside (including 3.5 million e-books), whereas the three films totalled 2.2 million admissions and 750,000 DVD sales -- outstanding figures for a foreign-lingo movie, but still leaving a lot of readers on the shelf, and the mainstream aud untapped.

 

In continental Europe, and most of all in Scandinavia, a higher proportion of Larsson's readers have seen the Swedish films. In Spain, 3.6 million book

 

sales translated into 2.7 million admissions across the trilogy. In Sweden, 3.6 million book sales were virtually matched by 3.1 million ticket sales, plus 950,000 DVD sales and 7.6 million TV viewers.

 

Spain, Italy, France and the U.K. registered drops of more than 75% in admissions from "Dragon Tattoo" to the final chapter of the trilogy. Some of that may be the result of the fact that the two sequels were cobbled together from footage from the original TV miniseries.

 

The dropoff in the U.S. was less precipitous -- starting from a lower base -- and DVD sales were actually higher for the third film than for the first.

 

But only Scandinavia really sustained a large mainstream audience across the entire trilogy.

 

For the new version, it helps that Yellow Bird, the producer of the original Millennium trilogy, is co-producing Fincher's film with Scott Rudin for Sony -- although the Swedish company's involvement is more a matter of courtesy that active input.

 

"We have (been able) to watch a lot of the material," says Yellow Bird president Mikael Wallen. "Just the fact they filmed every single exterior minute in Sweden means it feels very Swedish, and of course it's based on the same book, but it will feel very different from our films."

 

However popular the original "Tattoo" and its two sequels, there's also a sense that their scope was compromised by their TV roots. Rapace's performance elevated the material onto the bigscreen, but the $20 million trilogy arguably left room for a more ambitious treatment.

 

"It's not like the property has been used up," suggests veteran TV producer Lars Blomgren. "Fincher can make a fantastic movie, a fantastic three movies, out of these books. The second and third Swedish movies were never meant for cinema release."

 

Even the first Swedish adaptation "wasn't in my opinion a proper feature script," argues Gustafsson. "It was based on two really good TV scripts, and it has four or five endings, typical things you wouldn't do if you started from scratch as a film. From what I've learned from hearing Fincher talk, they have boiled it down to the essence, driving the main story much harder, much more focused on Lisbeth Salander."

 

Locals have responded with a certain degree of shock and awe to the spectacle of a heavyweight Hollywood director wielding the biggest budget ever seen in Sweden.

 

"They were in Stockholm for weeks and weeks, and everyone is 100% positive about it," says Charlotta Denward, head of production at the Swedish Film Institute. "It's very special for Swedish crews, to learn how Hollywood does it. There's a completely different view of what's possible. Many of us are a bit shocked by how much money you can spend on nothing -- lighting a street for hours, or repainting a whole block."

 

Adds Blomgren, "So many people have been involved in this project, the gaffers and grips and so on, they have had the chance to learn and see film production at the highest level, so it's good for everyone."

 

Denward concludes, "It makes us proud, not just that the remake was made in Sweden, but that they wanted the Swedish element to be very strong, and it's David Fincher, not just any director."

 

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118039957

The interview he did with Esquire magazine? I'm so pumped after reading his comments.

 

Here is another interesting article by Variety that shows just how happy the Swedish Film Industy are with Fincher's adaptions

 

 

 

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118039957

 

yeah that interview, although i read it somewhere else.

I found the first book hard to get into at first, I actually stopped reading for a while, his prose can be so stodgy at times and he describes everything. To. The. Last. Detail. I couldn't give a f*** what type of Apple Mac Lisbeth is using or what type of coffee Mikael is drinking. It took me until the last half of the book before I really couldn't put it down, and it was purely because of Salander that I kept going at first (easily one of my favourite literacy characters ever) but if you think this one is good, your in for a treat with the second part; it's funny that even though he planned for 10 odd books it works rather well as a trilogy.

 

I've said it before, but the teaser trailer is probably one of the best I've seen, I've lost count of the times I've watched it; it'a bit of a nitpick but I wish they didn't change the "She's coming" in the red band trailer to just "Coming" though for the green band version.

 

This is my most anticpated movie easily, I cannot friggin' wait. I do love Rapace, but I think that Mara looks more in tune with how I imagined Lisbeth (like a scawny teenager), Daniel Craig is pretty much perfect casting and I think Fincher is going to give us a more satisfying movie than the Swedish adaption.

 

I know what you mean. But the amount of detail he goes to is good in a way as it gets you to know what the characters do and like. I'm the opposite really. I was so intrigued by the Blomkvist story, and the I found the side story of Salander a bit disjointed to begin with. I love a good old murder mystery and the events surrounding this one really did get me hooked. I didn't guess the murderer, but I guessed what happened to Harriet. I've still not finished the first book, but I'd guess there's an underlying reason why he goes in to so much detail about her incidents with her legal guardian.

 

Agree about the trailer though. Obviously they'll have to do a trailer detailing the synopsis of the case, but it works so well as a trailer with all these creepy action scenes together. I've very high hopes for the film.

I know what you mean. But the amount of detail he goes to is good in a way as it gets you to know what the characters do and like. I'm the opposite really. I was so intrigued by the Blomkvist story, and the I found the side story of Salander a bit disjointed to begin with. I love a good old murder mystery and the events surrounding this one really did get me hooked. I didn't guess the murderer, but I guessed what happened to Harriet. I've still not finished the first book, but I'd guess there's an underlying reason why he goes in to so much detail about her incidents with her legal guardian.

 

Agree about the trailer though. Obviously they'll have to do a trailer detailing the synopsis of the case, but it works so well as a trailer with all these creepy action scenes together. I've very high hopes for the film.

I agree to an extent, and I didn't mind as much once I got used to his style of writing, but be ready for one long ass IKEA trip in the second part. Oh, I love a good murder mystery too; once I started tentatively reading it again after a long break, the part when Henrik explains the Harriet mystery was what made me think "here we go!" But then Mikael's storyline slows to a snail's pace again when he first starts researching the case; it wasn't until Lisbeth and Mikael finally started working together and they started having breakthroughs that I really got into it, and I was quite shocked with how dark it got. I think the endless dead ends and build up actually made it more effective when the horrible picture started to come together.

 

I am really looking forward to the next trailer actually, just to see more Mara in action, and to hear their Swedish accents - I just hope it's as well put together as the first one, which I really think is a masterclass in how to do a good teaser. I loved how all the shots were intercut with the POV driving up to Henrik's house, and how they created a real sense of dread about it. Wonderful.

 

And oh yes, the incidents with Bjurman play a big part throughout the books.

Edited July 22, 201113 yr by Daniel II

OK so I've just finished reading the book. Now I'm more interested to see how they've changed the ending. In a way the final part of the book is a big anti-climax imo. The only real turn of note is

Salander develops feelings for Blomkvist, while he's still playing the game.

Will be interesting to see what they do with the ending.

 

I rather liked the ending myself, it was nice to see Salander's more vulnerable side, and I felt a lot of sympathy for her at that point and it left me eager to read the second part, so it did its job for me. Fincher said that in his version she won't display her softer side as much as in the books and Blomkvist won't be such a player, so I do wonder how they are going to handle it, especially as it sets up their interaction for the rest of the series.

 

 

And enjoy the Girl Who Played with Fire, it's one hell of a book.

I watched the girl who played with fire last night after finishing the book a couple of days ago.....love these films!! i've started reading the last one now, and will get the dvd once i've finished the book :D