The New Lisbeth - What do you think?

Here are enough fotos at last to see the range of looks,... These may be too arty because of being in "W" magazine. I am uncertain.

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Posted by Leo Rivers i Cottage Grove , 15 January 2011

I think she looks very good! This is the new Lisbeth!

I am realy looking forward to the movie. I hope it will be great. David Fincher is a master-director and he is the right man for the job.

Posted by AT in Stockhom, Sweden , 17 January 2011

Picture # 4 in the slideshow is the best!!

Posted by Max in Gothenburg , 17 January 2011

It's also worth noting that Trent Reznor has signed on to do the music as well. I always had Lisbeth down as a Mine Inch Nails fan.

Posted by Spiffer in Durham , 17 January 2011

Hmmmm I'm a real fan of David Fincher films but not sure about this re-make. Different endings, different actors-nup, the Swedish films completed the job for me- to near perfectiong. I can't see Rooney bettering Noomi- but we'll see!

Posted by wasteinyourspace in Manchester , 18 January 2011

yeah... Noomi Rapace.. only Lisbeth.. ever

Posted by Punkydoll in Kettering oH , 20 January 2011

There is only one Lisbeth - Noomi Rapace! Mara will never fill her shoes. I like Fincher but I'm really skeptic about this remake. So skeptic that I'm even thinking about not watching it at all when it gets out in theatres. The 'new' Lisbeth looks awful, remindes me of some anorecsic catwalk model! This just ain't Salander and that's it!!!

Posted by Nikolina in Buzet, Croatia , 27 January 2011

Yes, so sorry Hollywood, but I will not be partaking of the remake. The originals are true to the novels and have great foreign actors (who aren't all dolled up) the trilogy is just great!!!

Posted by JAva in Indiana, USA , 29 January 2011

I think Rooney Mara looks great as Lisbeth. As much as I absolutely loved Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth - she really was amazing - I think she may have been slightly too old for the role. We know Lisbeth can pass for a teenager and is often described as being 'doll-like' and 'fine-boned'. For these reasons, I think Mara fits the bill really well. Apart from the fact that she actually does have boobs! Whether her acting will be up to the challenge is another thing.

Posted by Ro in Ireland , 1 February 2011

She looks more like the book portrays her than Noomi. Thats not to say Noomi was bad, she was great. The rest of the cast was horrid, and the movies butchered the book. Hopefully the U.S. version stays true to the books story, run time be damned lol, but like the Swed. version, i doubt it

Posted by R.hunter , 3 February 2011

@R.hunter - Fincher is changing the end of the story. So, it will not stay true to the book!

Posted by Nikolina in Buzet, Croatia , 3 February 2011

Lisbeth might very well be one of those iconic characters actresses want to play (in the same league as Maggie from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Katherine from Taming of the Shrew). Noomie Rapace was beyond wonderful in the role and she herself said that she'd "played her Lisbeth" and was finished. I can understand another actress wanting to play such a complicated character and, as Nikolina said, this will certainly not exactly be a "remake." My dream book/movie is that the 4th Millenium book is completed and made into a movie where Rooney Mara plays Lisbeth and Noomie Rapace returns as Camilla Salander. Since the books indicated that they were twins but didn't look or act the same, there would be no problem with the difference in the actresses looks and Camilla, by the few bits of information given in the books, is a different personality - something new to challenge Noomi Rapace's range of ability!

Posted by Rose in California , 10 February 2011

I'm not sure Mara and Rapace could play twins due to the obvious age difference. Nice idea though! :) If only there was that fourth book...

Posted by Ro in Ireland , 10 February 2011

Ridiculous . Only one Salander : Noami !

Posted by Alice in France , 13 February 2011

It really pisses me off that American directors always think they have to remake foreign films. People say that the remake will get people to watch the original, but I don't think they will care. No subtitles for this country! Just watch the original, and Noomi for life!

Posted by T.J. in Memphis , 15 February 2011

if the books you have read leave you breathless ,and wanting more the author has done his job.any remake of book or film will not be the same.stieg larsson i salute you.lisbeth salander what a girl.

Posted by john d in dartmouth devon england 15. 2. 11 , 15 February 2011

Fuck hollywood - capitalistic bullshit is what this trilogy is going to be turned into, to make a buck. They are always looking for their next super franchise to rake in the millions and billions if they can get away with it, and that alone is enough to make me vomit every time they feel the need to re-make a work to fit their stupid american sensibilities. It's the ultimate disrespect for the artists who created the original - fuck hollywood.

Especially considering the authors opinion on this kind of capitalism - if you're any kind of fan of Larssons work, you'll stay far away from this insult.

Posted by Loran mikan in København , 20 February 2011

I looked at the pics of the 'new' Lisbeth. I gotta say Noomi is still my number 1 she did such an amazing job and it would be very hard for anyone to be a better Lisbeth. America i really annoying me now cant they let another country have the glory! they keep taking the stories and ideas and remaking them and most of the time they do a shit job!

But i dont think o can resist no watching this...

btw she looks the best in the 4th pic the others she looks like some sort of alien model....

Posted by Kaz in Sydney , 22 February 2011

Noomi was well-casted-she was believabele in every respect. One mistake ,in my opinion, made my American film makers is casting "a name" or "a pretty face". When I saw Ms Rapace on screen-she was just as I had envisioned her character as I read the Trilogy.

Posted by Peggy Cranston in Princeton , 23 February 2011

Images four and five are the closest I think that portray Salander well. The others are not right. I doubt this film is going to serve justice to the books.. In fact I don't think any motion picture could. It is simply too eloquent and sublime a creation of words that I find it would be hard, if not impossible to construct and mould it into a real life motion picture. Some things should be left as they are, but on the contrary, I would love to see the take on how people would portray the story and characters through reality. I've a love for all things in reference with this trilogy, though a conflicting annoyance to the things marring it's originality and greatness such as movies that do it no justice. I'll remeber the books.

Posted by Georgia in Middlesbrough , 23 February 2011

I hate it!

Posted by Júlia ALves in Rio de Janeiro , 3 Mars 2011

Noomi was the perfect Lisbeth. She looked exactly like the picture I got in my head when I read the books. I'm not going to bother seeing the Hollywood remakes... I just have a feeling that H-wood will find a way to f*** up the stories, like turn them into mindless action flicks. I'd rather have the full, uncut Swedish movies on DVD, and it sounds like those will be coming out sometime soon, so I'm saving my $$.

Posted by Linnea in Minneapolis , 14 April 2011

Noomi Rapace did a cracking job under the direction of Niels Arden Oplev and I can't see Rooney Mara and David Fincher improving on the Swedish adaptation at all.

I don't speak Swedish but, even so, I felt that the English version of the novels was often awkward and occasionally quite poorly written. The story was great - the plot arc, the pacing, the tension and especially the characterisation - but the odd turn of phrase and many descriptive passages were often repetitive and sometimes boring. It was as if there was no joy in the use of language and it read like a second-hand account. Swedish speakers will be able to confirm or deny my opinion, but I felt that the English translation lacked something.

The Swedish films were great insofar as they provided a visualisation of the characters, places and events of the novels, much like Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' was a hugely satisfying visualisation of Tolkien's Middle-earth. Like that trilogy, however, I thought the films only provided a brief synopsis of the plot. That's perfectly understandable for a 2½-hour representation of a sprawling story that wanders down many avenues and has many layers. What the films delivered exceedingly well were the characterisations (chiefly Salander, but also Blomqvist and Berger) and mood of the novels.

Each representation of the novels - whether the English translation, the Swedish films or, now, the English-language film - can appear to be a step further and further away from the original. In reality, however, the original can only be the Swedish-language novels. Everything else is just a representation and, on that basis, I'm prepared to be open to both Fincher's film and Mara's Salander.

There are many things 'wrong' with the English-language remake - and by 'wrong' I mean that I don't like the sound of. The different ending (which I hope doesn't affect the beginning of the second film), the fact that Blomqvist is now an Englishman (as a foreigner I particularly enjoyed the insight into Swedishness that the books revealed and I cannot see how an English central character can portray this convincingly) and particularly having someone other than Noomi Rapace playing Salander (she totally nailed that character but I did read an interview in which she said she wouldn't have wanted to do it again anyway). But the fact that Americans (and this is important - Hollywood always claims that they remake European films for an 'international' audience - they don't: they remake them for lardass lazy Americans) seem to need a remake they can shove popcorn and hotdogs down their throats to instead of reading (can Americans read?) subtitles is very good for the Larsson estate's finances.

Now, whether the beneficiaries of that are the people Larsson would have wanted is another matter.

Posted by genji in Lisbethtown , 19 April 2011

omg noooo they wull fuck up the only lisbeth salander is the one noomi rapace showed in the movies

Posted by , 11 May 2011

Fuck hollywood - capitalistic bullshit is what this trilogy is going to be turned into, to make a buck. They are always looking for their next super franchise to rake in the millions and billions if they can get away with it, and that alone is enough to make me vomit every time they feel the need to re-make a work to fit their stupid american sensibilities. It's the ultimate disrespect for the artists who created the original - fuck hollywood.

Especially considering the authors opinion on this kind of capitalism - if you're any kind of fan of Larssons work, you'll stay far away from this insult. and if i remember the books right then lisbeth salander could even be a boy so any hollywood dumb ass with who doenst look like a tom boy fails eppicly

Posted by jessica in alkmaar, netherlands , 11 May 2011

Jessica, you are spot-on. European movies are subtle. Sublety is a concept foreign to Hollywood. No doubt characters will be opunching the air and shouting 'God bless America' in the court scene.

Posted by Chris in Perth, Australia , 20 May 2011

Does any one cares about Lisbeth`s black eyes??? I mean, You would NEVER place a Sherlok Holmes beeing blond right?? then why Hollywood will change Salander's physognomy choosing an actress with blue eyes and boobs!! Come on! I mean there´s a little bit of meaning in Larssons not choosing those characteristics in Salander's character, and those were to make a point, it is who she is what is important not her beautiful skyed eyes or her magnificent rack!!! I mean is completly anti-Salander choosing Mara! Altough yes! their dressers an make up artists made an amazing work on her...I prefer Noomi

Posted by Victoria in México , 22 June 2011

I posted this elsewhere but it fits here Looking at the recent poster release for the Fincher version does not me feel any better about the US remake. It is a classic badgirl/male fantasy look and is presenting the character of Lisbeth in totally the wrong way. (I am a guy by the way) anyone else feel the same?

Posted by Paul1984 in London , 16 July 2011

No, the US version will suck. It will make tons of money, but it will still suck. Rooney Mara is a terrible actress, at best. A privileged, upper class Irish/American girl cannot go head to head with a street-smart, hard-edged, half-Gypsy Swede, in a Swedish story. Mara would have to live 25 years, as a Swede to get the nuances, mannerisms, characteristics and behaviours of a Swedish woman.

Posted by Veronica in Södra Äbgby , 21 July 2011

No one can do Noomi Rapace but herself. The look alike is typical over the top hollywood crap. I used to like D Craig, but looks like he'll do anything now. Hope he doesn't ruin 007, he's was going in the right direction with Bond, but who knows now.

Posted by Kp in calgary , 2 August 2011

There are several reasons to to look forward to the new movie. There were lots of holes in the Swedish movies including complete rewrites of Larsson's storyline in 'Tattoo' Fincher is a good director and Zaillian is an Academy Award winning screenwriter who said he would follow the book closely.....however rooney is no noomi and it is Hollywood with its flash.

Posted by hilodave in Hawaii , 25 August 2011

Her boobs are too big, her eyes are not dark, she is not half-Swedish... FAIL!

Posted by Veronica in Södra Ängby , 28 August 2011

noomi rapace did a fine job as salander, but i think mara will play the role more envisioned in the book. when i read dragon, mara is more the character that i thought of instead of rapace.

the swedish movie for dragon (can't speak for fire or hornet, since i have not read them yet) totally massacre the book. there are so many different things going on, i can't believe so many people actually like it.

Posted by jose in florida , 6 September 2011

Lisbeth is supposed to be short, weights around 40KG and looks like a teenager. She is very pale and doll-like. I think the Lisbeth Salander played by Noomi Rapace was never like the one in the book.Credit goes to Noomi though for creating a different kind of Salander.I think she was a little bit old for the real Lisbeth. I think Rooney Maara is more closer to the book but again other than the piercings and the tatooes, its difficult for anybody to bring out the real Salander

Posted by lucia in new delhi , 23 January 2012

Very nice actress. Make the picture strong, but with the wrong "the end".

Posted by Clovis Romero in Alvorada do Sul, Brazil , 23 January 2012

I saw the American "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and the Swedish "Girl who played with fire." Roony Mara definitely is closest to the description of Lisbeth and plays the withdrawn character well. The other actress just didn't do it for me. Although the American version did leave out half the book!

Posted by R. McClen in Huntington, N.Y , 28 January 2012