it looks like Sony reps are confirming that a sequel is a go.
I knew it, although some of that is bullshit. Even though it says “Fincher hasn’t yet decided whether to return” he himself said he wants to return, but he has to be formally hired by the studio. That article in EW says that Zallian is “still working on the script” but I’ve read several places where** The Girl Who Played With Fire** script is finished. Either they mean tiny touch ups or they really mean the script for The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest.
In this interview with Fincher…
Hell, in the book:
he also has a sexual relationship with Cecelia. They removed her completely from the Swedish film and only had a couple of scenes with her in the new one.
I’ve read the books, and have seen the Swedish trilogy, and just got the chance to see Fincher’s take yesterday afternoon.
First of all, the theater (in Evanston) was pretty full for a Monday matinee. Of course, that’s pretty typical in Evanston on cold-weather days, and a lot of people had yesterday off too. In fact, both early showings of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy were sold out.
I really enjoyed the film, and thought it did a better job than the first adaptation. The pacing was terrific and even though I knew what was going to happen, it still kept me on the edge of my seat.
If Mara doesn’t get an Oscar nom, I might have to break shit in half. She’s fantastic.
I completely forgot (SPOILER FOR THE BOOKS, NOT JUST THE FIRST) about his sleeping with Cecilia. Hopefully the movies will jettison his stupid affair with Harriet and that agent…
Glad to hear you liked it, and that CenEv was full. I do agree about Mara.
I hope you get a chance to go back and see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It’s fantastic!
I thought she did quite well also. Though I was under the impression that the dragon tat was smaller, only on one shoulder and in color, but meh, it really doesn’t matter as it isn’t that important a detail.
The tat on Mara’s Lisbeth is more like the tat as described in the book than Rapace’s.
Yeah, Rapace had her entire back covered if I remember right.
I personally really enjoyed that they kept true to Larsson’s overuse of characters drinking coffee in the books. Fincher had his characters drinking coffee in nearly every scene.
One thing that was slightly annoying was the number of product placements. 7-11, McD’s, Apple, Google, Wikipedia, etc. They fit into the storyline (Lisbeth’s awful diet for one) but after awhile it seemed like overkill.
I liked that. Finally a character who does a Google search and actually uses Google and not some stupid made-up replacement. I hate when filmmakers go out of their way to not use real things. It just draws me out of the believability of the picture. If you want to use an Apple, use an Apple, not an “Orange” or a “Lemon.”
Ha, they even threw in some nods to Larsson’s disgusting sandwiches. The books are filled with all manner of horrifying sandwiches the characters make and eat without a second thought. I kept thinking as I was reading, Swedes eat the weirdest damn sandwiches!
That was a pet gripe of mine throughout both the book and both movies. I know this will annoy some Apple fans, but it is true: Hackers do NOT use Apples. Writers use Apples. For a hacker’s purposes, an Apple computer would just be an over-priced platform on which to run their own customized version of a secure version of Linux. An OS you can’t verify? As Lizbeth disparagingly said “Please.”
How can TGWTDT be a new theatrical release, when I saw the DVDs for that film and two sequels for rent at Blockbuster more than a year ago?
Am I being wooshed here?
What you saw were the Swedish versions of the film.
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Or, you have stumbled upon a Blockbuster out of space and time…
Well, I never rented them.
And after I saw the trailer I discounted the “American remake” hypothesis because it looks so foreign.
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Has he not read the books? The second and third ones are much better than the first one, and have a LOT more interesting plot lines. I haven’t seen the second and third Swedish movies, but I hope they kept with the books’ pacing.
Of course what I’m REALLY hoping for is that someone buys the rights and writes book four. 
Or at least makes a movie; there is definitely enough mystery left for one!
umberto
I’m looking forward to seeing “Girl…”
Partly, I love the idea that a woman gets revenge on a rapist.
As for the ending–in the book it was very poignant, Swedish movie, hopeful of a longer relationship.
Saw it last night… I missed how they explained the Anita/Henrietta thing in the movie and read tha book too long ago to remember exactly how it was handled there.
Any help??
I saw it today and really enjoyed it. I haven’t read the books or seen the Swedish films so I was coming to it fresh. The only issues I had were occasionally missing what some people said with their fake Swedish accents, but that didn’t happen very often.
A couple of things:
[spoiler]I almost laughed near the start when he started looking through pictures of the family. Random Person…Random Person…Stellan Sgarsgaard…Random Person. Hmm I wonder who the killer is?
The other thing was when it was over something didn’t add up. One of the things that pointed them towards Martin was that he was at the parade before he claimed to have arrived. Which looked like he had lied about his arrival time to cover up whatever he did to Harriet. But then we found out that he actually did nothing to Harriet. So why did he lie about what time he arrived? The only thing I could think of was that he didn’t want to be looked into as a suspect in case they did some digging and found out about that other girl. But I’ve forgotten the timeline and whether he’d killed her by that point or not.[/spoiler]
Really just a nitpick though, I thought it was great. I liked that Craig underplayed his role.
Hrududu, thanks for your perspective as someone new to the story. I laughed at your first sentence in the spoiler tag. You’re right, who else could it have been? There is a benefit to actors being unknown such as in the Swedish version.
Please someone else come in and answer What the … !!! and Hrududu’s questions. I’m trying to re-read the book and now the 3 versions are crossmixed in my mind. It will take me a while to sort out, and I’d like to see the movie again before answering.
Here’s a brief box office update since some were wondering how it would do.
In 19 days, the American version has made $106,136,000 worldwide (which for now is only 6 countries, it will expand more over the coming weeks). $76,836,000 domestic, $29,300,000 “foreign.”
The Swedish version made $104,384,415, worldwide, total, in its entire run. Worldwide. I don’t include that as an indication of either movie’s quality, since I think they’re both pretty amazing, but just as a comparison.
Saw it the other day, a couple of thoughts:
I hated hated hated the opening credits - too distracting, felt too much like a perfume advert on meth.
I thought that Rooney Mara was fantastic, totally owned the role.
Daniel Craig was likewise excellent.
Great movie, but, ultimately I preferred the original because of the Anita Harriet switch in the remake and because, as someone posted earlier, the sexual relationship between Lisbeth and Mikael seemed more organic in the Swedish version. While I haven’t read the books, I think that it’s more believable that Lisbeth would sleep with Mikael when she did the first time, because of the circumstances, and then revert to her detached self than to turn into an outright girlfriend.
Lastly, did someone up thread really say that Mara’s performance was better based on still photos? That may be the most ignorant thing that I’ve read all year.
I saw a few days ago. I have not read any of the books. I did see The Girl who played with Fire in a theatre. (which I really liked)
I have very mixed feelings about the film. On the one hand I did enjoy the performances but for me the best were Stellan Skarsgard (who should be a pirate) and of course Christopher Plummer. I wasn’t that impressed by Ms Mara or Craig. Not that they were bad, just not awesome. Robin Wright was good too.
I too found Lisbeth to be a bit too omnipotent. Yes she gets raped but she gets her revenge. And is the smartest, and the bravest, and the fuckingest and the walking around nakedest person because she is like the Honey Badger. Craig, the investigative journalist, was working on this investigation for months and in about 5 minutes she finds out more than he ever did. The daughter casually pointing out the big clue was very clumsy. I mean nobody investigating the case thought of that? Ever?
But it was, for me, too long, and a bit bad structure. I didn’t care one bit about everything happened after the conclusion of the missing person case and of course it’s like “Oh this guy fucked you up? Don’t worry I’ll handle it in like two weeks.”
I deeply appreciated that they left it in Sweden and didn’t really Americanize it but changing it to say Alaska and calling them Mike and Beth.
For me the best female performance this year is in Charlize Theron in Young Adult. Go see it.