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
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/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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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.
"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.
And when Bond is not a campy hero fighting campy supervillains, he's still a different kind of hero.

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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