Anyone else read this, or the other Stieg Larsson books? I just finished the second one and am starting on the third. Fabulous stuff, almost as good as my beloved Stephen Hunter Bob Lee/Earl Swagger books.
I think a movie of Dragon Tattoo is coming out in December. Might have to see that. While reading the book, I pictured Lisbeth Salander being played by Olivia Wilde, "Thirteen" of TV's House.
Have read all the books. Great writer. I have seen all 3 movies (Swedish with subtitles). Need to rent. I have heard they are coming out with "american" movie.....
Always a problem when adapting a novel for the screen. I am almost ALWAYS disappointed with the end product. :argh:
The best adaptation of a novel for the screen that I can remember was Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby. Even the dream sequences were transferred from book to screen almost verbatim.
As I just said in another post in a different thread, I am sorry for having fallen off the face of the earth but things with me have been a bit involved for the last month or so.
Gentlemen:
For reasons best left unsaid (although Charlie or, better yet Dean, if he is still "observing" what is said here, could probably tell you about them
privately), I don't get into open discussions about filmmaking anymore but while the cast for the upcoming (December is correct) version of "Tattoo" is pretty stellar and the director (David Fincher) has got an amazing track record, that shouldn't keep you from renting the original and the two follow-up chapters in the trilogy and enjoying them. They are certainly not what I would call mainstream entertainment but they are very good efforts.
The other thing is that while I would think (again looking at the people involved in the new version of "Tattoo" both in front and behind the camera) that it should be a good movie to see, as the Fincher-film will probably be intended as a more mainstream adaptation of the original story (for understandably broader demographic and financial reasons), seeing the "original" version would still be a good free-standing experience.
And I say "free-standing" for I am not one that believes that films can be compared to the books upon which they are sometimes based or derived. For they are different mediums and it's like Apples and Oranges. I am also one that believes it is not fair to compare or second-guess one director's vision (or one screenwriter's adaptation) to another's in the case of "remakes" for that is like comparing artists from different countries, timeframes, movements, or schools.
But now I am getting in the territory of why I generally don't discuss films in certain circles in the first place.
In any case, you should at least experience the original version of "Tattoo" while waiting for the other one to be released at the end of the year.
Hope things have been good with everyone here.
