The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2. Swedish- American psychological thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. This film adaptation was directed by David Fincher and written by Steven Zaillian.

Starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, it tells the story of journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig)'s investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared 4. He recruits the help of computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). Sony Pictures Entertainment began development on the film in 2. It took the company a few months to obtain the rights to the novel, while recruiting Zaillian and David Fincher. The casting process for the lead roles was exhaustive and intense; Craig faced scheduling conflicts, and a number of actresses were sought for the role of Lisbeth Salander. The script took over six months to write, which included three months of analyzing the novel. Pre- release screenings occurred in London, New York City, and Stockholm.

Critics gave the film favorable reviews, praising its bleak tone and lauding Mara and Craig's performances. With a production budget of $9. In addition to being included in several publications' best- of lists, the film was a candidate for numerous awards, and ultimately won nine accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), a brilliant but troubled investigator and hacker, compiles an extensive background check on Blomkvist for business magnate Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), who has a special task for him.

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In exchange for the promise of damning information about Wennerstr. After moving to the Vanger family's compound, Blomkvist uncovers a notebook containing a list of names and numbers that no one has been able to decipher. Salander, who is under state legal guardianship due to diagnosed mental incompetency, is appointed a new guardian, lawyer Nils Bjurman (Yorick van Wageningen), after her previous guardian Holger Palmgren suffers a stroke. Bjurman, a sexual sadist, abuses his authority to extort sexual favors from Salander and violently rapes her, not realizing she has a hidden video camera on her bag. At their next meeting she stuns him with a taser, rapes him with a dildo, and marks him as a rapist with a tattoo on his chest and stomach.

Threatening to disclose the video recording, she blackmails him into writing a glowing progress report and granting her full control of her money. Blomkvist's daughter Pernilla (Josefin Asplund) visits him and notes that the numbers from the notebook are Bible references. Blomkvist tells Vanger's lawyer, Dirch Frode (Steven Berkoff), that he needs help with his research, and Frode recommends Salander based on the work she did researching Blomkvist himself. Blomkvist hires Salander to investigate the notebook's content. She uncovers a connection to a series of murders of young women from 1. Jewish or having Biblical names; many of the Vangers are known antisemites. During the investigation, Salander and Blomkvist become lovers.

Henrik's openly national socialist brother Harald identifies Martin (Stellan Skarsg. Salander's research uncovers evidence that Martin and his deceased father, Gottfried, committed the murders. Blomkvist breaks into Martin's house to look for more clues, but Martin catches him and prepares to kill him.

While torturing Blomkvist, Martin brags of having killed women for decades but denies killing Harriet. Salander arrives, subdues Martin and saves Blomkvist. While Salander tends to Blomkvist, Martin flees. Salander, on her motorcycle, pursues Martin in his SUV. He loses control of his vehicle on an icy road and dies when it catches fire.

Salander nurses Blomkvist back to health and tells him that she tried to kill her father when she was 1. Blomkvist deduces that Harriet is still alive and her cousin Anita (Joely Richardson) probably knows where she is. He and Salander monitor Anita, waiting for her to contact Harriet. When nothing happens, Blomkvist confronts her, deducing that the woman posing as Anita is Harriet herself. She explains that her father and brother had sexually abused her for years, and that Martin saw her kill their father in self- defense. Her cousin, Anita, smuggled her out of the island and let her live under her identity. Finally free of her brother, she returns to Sweden and tearfully reunites with Henrik.

As promised, Henrik gives Blomkvist the information on Wennerstr. Salander hacks into Wennerstr. Blomkvist publishes an article that ruins Wennerstr.

Salander hacks into Wennerstr. Salander reveals to her former guardian Holger Palmgren that she is in love with Blomkvist.

On her way to give Blomkvist a Christmas present, Salander sees him with his longtime lover and business partner Erika Berger (Robin Wright). She discards the gift and rides away. A co- owner for Swedish lifestyle magazine Millennium, Blomkvist is devoted to exposing the corruptions and malfeasance of government, attracting infamy for his tendency to . Having read the book amid its . I wanted that person who was indomitable. By the end of our casting process, I knew this was someone worth falling on the grenade for. The character was a .

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Fincher felt that Salander's eccentric persona was enthralling, and stated, . Her hair was dyed black and cut into various jagged points, giving the appearance that she cut it herself. Despite calling the Vanger family .

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He's really the nicest old guy in the whole book. Everybody is a bit suspect, and still are at the end. Old Vanger has a nice straight line, and he gets his wish. So in dealing with people, he would be very good . Salander turns the tables on him, torturing him and branding him as a rapist.

Fincher wanted the character to be worse than a typical antagonist, although he did not want to emulate the stereotypical . The director considered Van Wageningen to be the embodiment of a versatile actor—one who was a . Bjurman's multifaceted psyche was the main reason Van Wageningen wanted to play the role. The Dutch actor said, .

I started out half way between the elation of getting to work with David Fincher and the dread of this character, but I was able to use both of those things. We both thought the most interesting route would be for Bjurman to seem half affable. The challenge was not in finding the freak violence in the guy but finding the humanity of him.

In performing her . There are no straightforward emotions in the world of this film. By December, two major developments occurred for the project: Steven Zaillian, who had recently completed the script for Moneyball (2. Scott Rudin finalized a partnership allocating full copyrights to Sony. The screenwriter recalled, . We will think of it as one thing for now.

It's possible that it can be two and three, but let's concentrate on this one.'. As they began to read, the duo noticed that it had a tendency to take .

Fincher recalled of the encounter: . It is the thing that throws Salander and Blomkvist together, but it is their relationship you keep coming back to. I was just wondering what 3.

Zaillian would get rid of. After a conversation, Fincher was comfortable .

So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. I didn't change anything just for the sake of changing it. There's a lot right about the book, but that part, I thought we could do it a different way, and it could be a nice surprise for the people that have read it. Zaillian commented, . A serial killer is about destruction; they get off on destroying something. It's not about having power over something, it's about eliminating it. What thrills them is slightly different.

But at the same time you have to walk a razor thin line so that the audience can viscerally feel the need for revenge but also see the power of the ideas being expressed.