Daniel Craig Confirmed to Star in Fincher's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
It was reported back in June that Daniel Craig was in talks to take on the lead male role as Mikael Blomkvist in David Fincher's upcoming adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Comingsoon claims to have confirmed that this rumor is actually true. Craig is also onboard to play this character in the two sequels as well, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. The books that the films are based of of were written by Stieg Larsson.
The film was adapted by Steve Zaillian, and it revolves around the mystery surrounding a long-unsolved disappearance of an heiress. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently dinged by a libel case, and young female hacker Lisbeth Salander try to resolve it, stirring up bundles of personal and industrial corruption along the way.
The lead female lead in the film has yet to be cast, but the last we heard Fincher was going on a world wide search for an unknown actress to take on the part. I think Craig will do a excellent job in the role and I'm looking forward to seeing his portrayal of the character.
There was a Danish film adaptation of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo that was released last year, which was a great film. For those of you that don't know what the story is about here is a synopsis from the book.
A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.
It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.
It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age—and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it—who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism—and an unexpected connection between themselves.
It’s a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.
What do you think about Daniel Craig being cast in the lead role?