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"The girl with the dragon tattoo" has been a major hit. It's been said that the film has a projected earning of impressive $56 million.
Both Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, writer Steve Zaillian and director David Fincher are signed on to all three movies. Columbia studios has stated that the trilogy will be shot back to back.
Release date for the next film has only been set to 2013.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
| Director: | David Fincher | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer: | Steve Zaillian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Producers: | Scott Rudin, Ole Sondberg, Sören Staermos | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Premiere Date: |
12th Dec 2011 (London) 14th Dec 2011 (New York City) |
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| Release Date: |
20th Dec 2011 (USA, Canada) 21th Dec 2011 (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland) |
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Critics and reviews
Since the premiere of "The girl with the dragon tattoo" on December 12'th in London the reviews have been good. Rooney Mara (Lisbeth Salander) has been highly praised and has become one of Hollywoods most wanted.
Production timeline
Columbia will do a total re-write based on the books, rather than a translation of the original Swedish script. Steve Zaillian, the writer of the script for "Schindler's list" is contracted as the writer of the script.
Director will be David Fincher, the man who gave us Fight Club, Se7en and Alien3.
The first movie, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", is said to be released the 21'st December 2011 in USA, Canada and in Sweden
The movie had premiere on December 12 in London, American premiere on December 14'th in New York City.
History
The three awarded Swedish language films in the Millenium-thrilogy have previously been released in Europe and in the U.S. They have altogether taken in more than $100 million worldwide. This has made the american film industry realize the economic potential in the project.
In February 2010, Columbia Pictures signed a deal with the Swedish production company Yellow Bird, which owns the cinematic rights to the three books, and Stieg Larsson's father Erland Larsson and brother Joakim Larsson. Joakim Larsson commented the deal in a Swedish newspaper "We get to stay in control for most parts, which seems to be quite unusual in Hollywood. But it was important to us, we didn't want this to turn into too much of a 'business-thing', we feared that he (Stieg Larsson) would be exploited".
One of the best movies that I have ever see
- EFI, 20 January 2012
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The movie was absolutely amazing and I just finished the second book and I couldn't put it down! Is there going to be a movie in America made for the 2nd and 3rd book?
- heidi, 20 January 2012
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Good movie. They left out a few things but that didn't detract from the main story.
- SandyMac, 16 January 2012
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I just hope Columbia sticks to the book a little closer that the Swedish version did.
- Romok, 11 December 2011
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Amazing! Extremely looking forward to new movies. For once I think "hollywood" has the right idea, with the director for one. Also the idea of rewriting the original novels instead of translating the original script.
- jennifer, 5 December 2011
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huge.huge fan!!!!!!!!!! Would have dreamed of working on set! doing anything!
- sheri k raymond, 4 October 2011
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I also disagree with "Stekare" below. I hesitated seeing the movies because they were Swedish with English dubbing and/or English sub-titles, and didn't like the thought of the rape scene. I finally gave in, rented all three movies and watched them in sequence. I liked them immensely. I even made copies of all three movies and plan to watch them again. Having said that the movies are not as good as the books themselves. The only whine I have is the ending of "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest" whereas in the book "Lisbeth" lets Michael in. I don't quite understand why they changed that.
- , 21 July 2011
I agree about the ending of "Hornets Nest"....why not show Lizbeth was ready to deal with Mikael again...the 1st movie was even worse that way.
I understand the need for streamlining the plot, but why kill off Anita Vanger, Why change some of the initials in Harriet's bible. I liked all three Swedish movies. but the tiny screw ups were maddening.
....and there are many many more.
- Hilodave, 14 September 2011
i agree, they left out so many things.
- lucia, 23 January 2012
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Can't understan it. How could "Stekare" (below) get this so wrong. Lisbeth in the films (via Noomi Rapace) nailed the role. True, in the book she was more talkative at the end especially to Mikael (whom she admitted to herself she'd fallen in love with), but most of the time she was true to the character and did not say a thing (especially to police and Psychiatrists). Yes, they cut a lot out, otherwise you'd have a 7 hour film. DUH! And they did a lot of editing about the plot too. Pernilla makes the religious connection with the names in the diary, not Lisbeth. Another Duh. But all in all it was a great film.
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- acusa, 1 July 2011
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Did not like movie not at all! Lisbeth were out of character, in book she were outspoken but here she got that all feelings and stuff, she smoked a lot! :) Did not like script as it were in movie. A lot of things were left out.
Blomkvist were summoned by Vanger just because he had offered some precious material on Wennestrom, they cut it out of movie. Blomkvist had that charm, ladies guy, but he did sleep only with Lisbeth. They completely took out Berger, there was nothing about romantic feelings between Blomkvist and Cecilia what was really important and it did last quite a bit in book. Also the fast-forward pace in investigation, half book was about struggles in finding any usable leads, here it went just like that- waving magic stick! Did not feel any mistery at all who were the true killer and if there was one! While reading the book, there was plenty of misleads, I even considered Frode and Vanger by himself at some point, because of connection between him and Wennestrom. Other members from family as well, for instance- Cecilia! After he dumped her, she was one of top suspects in Blomkvist mind.
And biggest differences form book/movie is that we do not get insight in characters mind set, there is good deal of monologues of each character and from which we made out opinions about them.
Cause of that, I did not saw that intellectual Blomkvist or Salander. In Salanders case, if I werent the one who read the book before movie, I would think she is truly psyho, did not feel that high intelligent standarts for her..
Because of my frustrations, did not start viewing 2nd and 3rd part of films.
Must say, I am still addicted to all characters and I am really into all writing style by Stieg, will really miss him and his books!
- Stekare!, 13 June 2011
Yes, and they decided to leave out the fact, Vanger inc took the share in Millenium board, with both Vanger Senior and Martin as a chairman as some point and Harriet in the end..
- Stekare!, 13 June 2011
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Its my understanding that the Swedish/Oplev version of GWTDT was made for between 5 and 7 million dollars. Its also my understanding that the Hollywood/Fincher version of GWTDT was made for around 90 milliion dollars. Someone should tell Sony/Paramount/MGM that they've been SUCKERED!
- SHC of Illinois, USA, 21 January 2012