The film adaptation of the explosively-popular-in-Europe novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is edging its way towards the states and now has a couple of trailers to announce itself with. Devin profiled this as one of 30 Non-Mainstream films to be excited for, and now you can build said excitement with some actual footage!
The first is less of a trailer and more of a “Hey! Look at me! I exist” type teaser that doesn’t provide much beyond a logo and a vague date. The teaser does manage to cleverly build on the cliched super-zoom-into-a-microscopic-view-of-icky-human-parts that started with Fight Club and has been the bread-and-butter of CSI for ten years, so good on it for that.
The trailer proper is still more of a style piece, but runs concrete footage from the film that looks… moody and modern. There’s definitely a strong effort to establish that this movie really is a big deal, you insulated fucking Americans. They did shell out for the trailer announcer with extra gravel… they’re taking this shit seriously.
There doesn’t seem to be a lot solid info out there on the nature of the US release, other than it will be a platformer- meaning they’ll start small and beef up the screen count proportional to its success. For all of you people in real cities, expect this in a theater somewhere near you in March. Everyone else, expect the American remake near you in two or so years.
Again, the trailers are here.
4 comments
It's a pretty good film for what it is. Smaller budget, mostly talk (in Swedish). Locations are visually interesting. Can't see it having much success in the States, but those that read the book should enjoy it. They had to cut a lot out for time, but the basic story is the same.
The Girl with the Lepus Tattoo
Just watched this over the weekend and more or less agree with the first comment. There are, however, some truly over the top scenes of sexual molestation within the first hour (and it runs for about 150 minutes) that left me feeling incredibly uneasy.
The film as a whole is a slow moving detective story, and if you're into that sort of thing you won't be disappointed.
I'm amazed at how popular these novels are. The writing is adequate, at best.
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