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Having only grossed $55 million domestically so far (on a $90 million budget), David Fincher’s English-language Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been perceived as something of a box office disappointment. But don’t box up your stun gun and dildo just yet, because Sony says Dragon Tattoo‘s sort-of soft box office won’t effect their plans for a sequel. YAY! Strawberry merkins for everyone!
“[Dragon Tattoo] continues to do strong business and nothing has changed with respect to development of the next book,” a Sony rep tells EW. In November, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal told us that The Girl Who Played With Fire was definitely a go, with a targeted late-2013 release date. [EW]
Despite the crappy ending, I thought Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was pretty good, and I guarantee you it would’ve made a lot more money had they released it sometime between January and April when it would’ve had zero competition instead of throwing it in the late-December Oscar bait pile. In any case, I’m down for the next two. Ooh, you think there’ll be violence against women?
So far, there’s just one sticking point, and it’s kind of a big one. Fincher isn’t signed on yet.
So far no director has committed to the project (Fincher hasn’t yet decided whether to return), but according to Pascal, stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig are both already signed up for the other two films. Last month Mara told EW she’d love to play Lisbeth again. “I don’t feel finished with the character,” she said. “I’m not ready to go back there yet, but I think by the time we start, I will be.”
If he signed on for what he knew was the first installment of a trilogy going in, you’d think he would’ve planned to make three films all along, but who knows. All I know is that if they can’t get Fincher, Brett Ratner would be a good choice. He’d be great with all the feminist stuff.
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First of all, yay!
Second, can you imagine Brett Ratner trying to do something like this? He’d probably make Lisbeth wear booty shorts and a crop top. And then he’d kill Blomkvist off in the first ten minutes. And then the rest of the movie would be populated by characters only vaguely recognizable as the characters from the book.
Also, more boobs.
I can picture it. He directed Red Dragon and I imagine this would be pretty much the same (Trying really hard to copy his predecessors’ tone and style).
Oh yeah. In my haste to bash “X:3” for the millionth time, I forgot “Red Dragon.”
Red Dragon would be a joke that either Eddie Murphy or Chris Tucker would make about her period.
Gives you the impression the book gave: Salander has strong feelings for Blomkvist, but he’s a unrepentant manwhore and not worth it.I am beautiful woman and I love good man…..inter racial romance is my dream… so I joined —-βlαckwhitеPlanet.СòM—–it’s where to- connect with beautiful and excellent people! Maybe you wanna ch’eck it out or tell your friends.I just can’t for see a time where I can take seriously the dialogue when it all sounds like the Swedish chef.
Michael Bay is clearly the pick to click when they need to replace Fincher. Who but he is the Boy Who Played With Fire?
More like the Boy Who Played with Himself. While Eating Shrimp.
HIYOOOOOO……I’ll see myself out.
I am seriously hopeful that they at least make English Language versions of the other two books. I can’t conceive of me watching the Swedish films for the end of Strawberry Merkin’s story. It’s not from a hatred of reading subtitles, I just can’t for see a time where I can take seriously the dialogue when it all sounds like the Swedish chef.
They only occasionally sound like the Swedish Chef. Only when somebody starts getting expository.
Merkin hard or hardly merkin?
Ratner what what
Ratner in da hizzy
Jackin wif crustaceans
In fronna fake asians
Rooney Mara’s merkin?
I’ll get that sh*t twerkin’
Uh, yeah, uh
/drops mic, heads to buffet
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came out at a terrible time, and despite a slow box office start, should make a butt load of money. Fincher probably isn’t signed already because he thought the first installment would have a much bigger box office and wanted to hold out to make more money on film #2. That totally backfired.
I didn’t rise to the gentle trolling last time, but jeez, you and the jacket again. I can only guess it was a fetching plaid number, ya’ queen.
Anyways, the last two books could use some American slick. Turgid, foreign and weird is best left to internet porn and even then only as a change of pace.
The Swedish one has a better ending. Gives you the impression the book gave: Salander has strong feelings for Blomkvist, but he’s a unrepentant manwhore and not worth it.
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So we’re just gonna pretend these movies haven’t all been made 2 years ago already because Americans don’t like to read.
Already made and, so far, already made better. This one is absolutely pointless. Having the 3 originals already streaming on Netflix had to have killed the US box office.
And in Europe they’ve already shown the originals on TV, so I’m not sure who’s supposed to be the target audience here.
Eh, I thought the Fincher version was much, much better than the Swedish one.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
Guillermo del Toro would be an interesting choice. It would give us something completely different and engaging to watch with out feeling compelled to compare it to anything else. Also, blinking merkins!
Michael Gondry, all the way. The dragon tattoo could actually be an anthropomorphic character that comes alive to help solve mysteries.
Saw it a week after it came out, but solid flick IMO. So I went to Netflix and queued up the Swedish version just to skim it for artistic comparison. Okay, I skimmed it to see if we get to see Noomi Rapace’s @$$.
The next installment is begging for Tim Burton. Of course, that means replacing Mara with Johnny Depp, who coincidentally, owns a variety of merkins.
Planning a ‘Dragon Tattoo’ sequel without David Fincher directing it would be like… wanking over Olivia Munn WITHOUT eating a shrimp!
When asked if he wanted to do the Girl Who Played with Fire, Ratner declined because Drew Barrymore has saggy tatties.
Didn’t the movie end the same way as the book, unlike the Swedish movie?