Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, IT was dusk on the Sunset Strip here when Noomi Rapace swooped into an oak-paneled bar, looking nothing like herself. Swathed in crepe the color of orange sherbet, her skin luscious, her hair tousled, she could have been any starlet making the rounds. But she might have been Someone. Eavesdroppers craned their necks, not quite sure.

Then, a murmur of recognition from a banquette just beyond. “It’s her,” a man whispered furiously to his companions. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo!”

These days Rooney Mara’s pale, pierced visage looms on billboards for David Fincher’s take on the Stieg Larsson novel, the first of the Millennium trilogy best sellers. But for fans of the original Swedish films, Ms. Rapace (pronounced Ra-PAHSS) will forever embody Lisbeth Salander, Larsson’s avenging angel: razor sharp and tough as tungsten, a tiny freak of nature able to bring a man twice her size to his knees.

That might have been her face up on the billboards. But Ms. Rapace didn’t even consider auditioning; she wasn’t interested in dwelling on a character that had consumed her for a year and a half, transforming her from a well-regarded Swedish actress into an international sensation.

“I was done with her,” Ms. Rapace, 31, said, sipping peppermint tea at the Sunset Tower Hotel and looking remarkably normal for someone specializing in the psychically ravaged. On the last day of shooting the trilogy’s concluding film, “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” when producers arrived with Champagne, Ms. Rapace ran to the bathroom and vomited. “I was throwing up for 45 minutes,” she said. “I couldn’t stand. It was so clearly my body throwing Lisbeth out.”

Rooney Mara

Rooney Mara, Fans of film adaptations Swedish Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy “novels were eagerly awaiting the release of director David Fincher’s first book,” The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, “with a mixture of excitement and apprehension. Fincher is a good director – is a fact. He was nominated for a DGA award for “The Social Network”, a good indication that he will be nominated for an Oscar. And there is no question that the director of “Se7en” and “Zodiac” is perfectly elegant, dark thrillers.

Fincher and Rooney Mara virtually unknown actress (she appeared in “The Social Network”) who plays the heroine hard edge Larsson, Lisbeth Salander, recently spoke to W Magazine, and Mara on the cover of character, almost unrecognizable “The Social Network, but looking good Salander-ish. Yet some of the revelations in the article are generating lots of buzz.

The article says in part:

The script, which captures the dark tone of the novel (original Swedish title was “Men who hate women”) was written by Oscar winner Steven Zaillian, who wrote “Schindler’s List, and differs rather dramatically from the book. Blomkvist is less crowded, Salander is more aggressive and, especially, the ending of the drama-resolution-has been completely changed. It may be sacrilege to some, but Zaillian has improved the script Larsson-end is more interesting.

Not sure how this will go. Most fans think of novels Larsson went well with his own material. Whether it is right and just made a film Kick-Ass, or is it another case of Hollywood thinking he knows better than the novelists, remains to be seen.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/movies-in-albany/advance-look-rooney-mara-as-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo

Rooney Mara

Rooney Mara, AFP – LOS ANGELES – Actress Mara Rooney has scored a coup of quality and be the star of three Hollywood adaptations of wildly popular Stieg Larsson “Millennium Trilogy.”

Mara, 24, hails from upstate New York and will play against Daniel Craig Lisbeth Salander, 42, of James Bond fame.

U.S. actress has worked with director David Fincher in the past in “The Social Network.” In the end, the actress who also appeared in a “Nightmare on Elm Street” movie beat out a series of best young actresses interested in the plum role.

The first film, “Out Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” shot in Sweden and the United States and is expected in 2011.

Published in 44 countries, Larsson cult crime stories have sold over 40 million copies, says Sony.

A Swedish film adaptation of the work already done Larsson, Dane Niels Arden Oplev directed the first installment and the Swede Daniel Alfredson the other two.

Larsson died in 2004 aged 50 years before the book became a worldwide success.