Craig Gets The "Girl"?

Daniel Craig is on the list to play Mikael Blomkvist in David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo says Deadline

Late author Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy follows journalist, Blomkvist' the publisher of a Stockholm magazine called 'Millennium'.

Losing a libel case brought against him by industrialist 'Hans-Erik Wennerström', Blomkvist agrees to be hired by 'Henrik Vanger', former CEO of the 'Vanger' companies, who offers to back the Millennium and reveal information about Wennerström's criminal activities.

After a chance run-in with 'Lisbeth Salander', a punk computer hacker with a chip on her shoulder, the unlikely couple form a classic detective pair, until the hunters become the hunted

Brad Pitt has been discussed to play the part while Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, and Natalie Portman are all possibles for Lisbeth

Steven Zaillian just turned his first draft of the adapted this past Tuesday

Scott Rudin will produce the pic.

With Bond 23 on hold indefinitely Graig is free to take this on after he does Cowboys & Aliens

Deadline says that Sam Mendes will be ready to helm Bond by the time the 2 pics are completed assuming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's problems are behind them