Talks have turned into a contract as Deadline reports that Daniel Craig has closed the deal to star in David Fincher's already highly anticipated "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," with options for a second and third installment. Apparently Craig's upcoming schedule is incredibly tight and he's expected to move right from Jon Favreau's currently filming "Cowboys Vs. Aliens" to Fincher's 'Tattoo' which is slated to shoot this fall in Sweden. He also needed clearance from Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson who, though they have officially put "Bond 23" on hiatus, wanted to make sure Craig could make their potential schedule should a window of opportunity open at MGM to make the film.
Craig will take the lead role of Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who teams with young hacker Lisbeth Salander in investigating and exposing five generations of a powerful and wealthy Swedish family. Salander is one of the hottest roles for young actresses in Hollywood right now. Apparently, Sony and Fincher have narrowed their selection down to five potential candidates: "Sucker Punch" star Emily Browning, two relatively unknown Australian actresses in the shape of Sara Snook and Sophie Lowe, "The Social Network" star Rooney Mara (as reported first right here), and French actress Lea Seydoux. Since day one, Fincher has been eyeing a relative unknown for the role and seems to be sticking to his guns.
Written by Steve Zaillian ("Schindler's List," "American Gangster"), the film is slated for an Oscar season release on December 21, 2011. Fincher's next film, the equally buzzed about "The Social Network" hits on October 1st.
7/26/2010
Daniel Craig Officially Confirmed For The Lead In David Fincher's 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'
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I'm not against this casting, he looks right and is really a handsome version of Michael Nyqvist (blomqvist in the awful swedish movies).
One of my major issues with the swedish movies is they lacked any real charm, in the books Blomqvist is as charming as Salander is intriguing yet poor old sour faced Daniel Craig is always a little too humourless for me.
I want to be wrong and Fincher is great so I'm trusting him. They should weigh the final five girls and dump them one by one until we have a 35kg Lisabeth Salander, or just give it to Yolandi Vi$$er.
I haven't seen the Daniel Craig Bond movies, but James Bond is -supposed- to be extremely charming. One of Blomqvist's few character traits in the books is his weird charm that attracts every straight/bisexual female in existence, so I guess this casting should work?
If this is gonna be a trilogy, I hope Daniel Craig is used to standing around and doing nothing.
This is still set in Sweden? I thought the point of the remake was to do it in English and presumably set it in an English-speaking country.
Yeah part of the bond reboot left Daniel Craig's bond utterly charmless, even when he delivers a gag, you feel he might spit it at you.
I do find it odd it will be set in sweden yet I really want to start second guessing the casting of Ronald Niedermann the Blonde Giant, I'm voting for Jackie Earle Haley shot at perspective.
I like Daniel Craig a lot, but I hope he can wake up and engage a little more with the audience here. I think the film will be a total failure if he's stonefaced the whole time.
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