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drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
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#1: Dec 24th 2011 at 1:05:26 AM

I just got back from seeing the American version of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo...it was an excellent piece of cinema, the critics are (as usual) completely off-base. But that aside, I have a speculation...

For those of you who've seen it; did the intro feel like a wickedly skewed version of a James Bond movie? I am starting to think that Hollywood might be setting this up as a franchise with more than three movies.

Consider; Steig Larsson's girlfriend still is in possession of his laptop (with two more half-finished books and notes for five more, ten in all), and has refused to release it due to a bitter dispute with Larsson's family. Now, morass of international copyright law aside, there's easily enough material for Hollywood to do what I'm suggesting...several Bond films were based on notes or unfinished works, many have no basis in Fleming's writing whatsoever aside from the character.

Personally I like the idea. Anyone else?

edited 24th Dec '11 1:05:58 AM by drunkscriblerian

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Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
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#2: Dec 24th 2011 at 1:45:35 AM

The only way you would see a sequel is if the first one breaks even. And with its disappointingly low opening (the six-day is only expected to be $27 million when predictions had it at $40 million and as high as $65 million) and $100 million plus budget (minus prints and advertising, which was possibly another $30-60 million worldwide), it's not looking likely.

Also, Fincher is very unlikely to return for the sequels (which will be shot back to back). He isn't signed on and has at least three other films in the planning stages (one of them is a remake of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea).

edited 24th Dec '11 2:03:36 AM by Buscemi

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drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
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#3: Dec 24th 2011 at 1:51:54 AM

No Finchler for the sequels? Suck. He had a deft hand with this one.

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Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
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#4: Dec 24th 2011 at 2:02:57 AM

Another factor to Fincher not signing on for the sequels is the bad experience he encountered with another sequel: Alien 3.

edited 24th Dec '11 2:03:04 AM by Buscemi

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Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#5: Dec 24th 2011 at 4:38:43 PM

If you take out the main character and some of the more lurid elements, there's really not much difference between The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and an Agatha Christie mystery. That's not a criticism, just an observation; the characters are what make it unique and interesting.

drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
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#6: Dec 24th 2011 at 6:53:39 PM

[up]Which is kind of why I think Lisbeth would make an interesting spiritual successor to James Bond. She does sort of fill the bill as a heroine for our time.

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Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#8: Dec 25th 2011 at 11:31:28 PM

"Spiritual successor to James Bond" doesn't seem quite right though. Bond used a lot of campy gadgets and fought larger than life master-mind supervillians bent on world domination. Lisbeth Salander seems more of the "damaged genius" type, more in line, spiritually, with Sherlock Holmes, especially when you take his cocaine use and asocial mannerisms into account.

metaphysician Since: Oct, 2010
#9: Dec 26th 2011 at 7:24:13 PM

[up] And when Bond is not a campy hero fighting campy supervillains, he's still a different kind of hero.

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johnnyfog Actual Wrestling Legend from the Zocalo Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
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#10: Dec 27th 2011 at 2:06:35 PM

By James Bond, what you mean is a literary superhero and star of their own film series?

The books eventually went in that direction, so why not.

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Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#11: Dec 28th 2011 at 10:00:54 PM

Actually, she has more than a little in common with Nero Wolfe...

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