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David Fincher Wants A Dragon Tattoo

The character Lisbeth Salander

15th Mar 2010
By Andrew Hedley, Flicks.co.nz

Some news for fans of Swedish writer Steig Larsson's best-selling Millenium Trilogy, comprising of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

You'll already know that all have been adapted into films, the first of which is out already and is rather good. The second opens on August 12 and the third on October 21.

Now NY Magazine's Vulture reports that David Fincher is interested in directing an English-language version, mostly likely replacing the Scandinavian location with something in North America or Canada. This would follow a move to Anglicise Let the Right One In (Let Me In, directed by Cloverfield helmer Matt Reeves).

On the producers wish list to play Lisbeth Salander, an anarchic genius computer hacker, is Carey Mulligan, the Oscar-nominated star of An Education.

Screenwriter Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List, American Gangster) is adapting the novel.

Finched himself has nearly completed The Social Network, the adaptation of Ben Mezrich's book about Facebook's founders.