Monday, September 15, 2014

The Girl Who Played With Fire Still On Says Fincher

It's been quite some time since we have heard any news about the English-language version of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo follow-up "The Girl Who Played with Fire".


The next book in the series is set a year later. Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is approached by a young journalist couple with a meticulously researched thesis about Swedish sex trafficking ring involving high-ranking public and private figures. When both they and Lisbeth Salander's (Rooney Mara) abusive former guardian is found murdered, Lisbeth is pegged as the prime suspect. The trail leads to a dark incident in Lisbeth's past and a mysterious figure known only as 'Zala' who is the key to everything.

Andrew Kevin Walker was working to redraft Steven Zaillian's earlier versions of the script for the film for Tattoo helmer David Fincher

Fincher think the sequel will get made--he told the Swedish news site Afton Bladet (and translated) recently:

"I think because Sony has already spent millions of dollars on the rights and the script, it will result in something. The script that we have now has huge potential, I can reveal that it is extremely different from the book."

Fincher's 'Dragon Tattoo' made $102 million domestically and $232 million worldwide--from a costly $90 million budget. The Swedish language version released in '09 generated $104 million worldwide from a budget of just $13 million.

I enjoyed both versions of "Dragon" quite a lot. I hope the US take on "Fire" gets the go ahead...

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