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The internet is abuzz with talk of The Girl With Dragon Tattoo and Hollywood. Sony reportedly acquired the rights to make a new English language film based on the book at the end of 2009, naming Scott Rudin as producer and Steve Zaillian as writer for the first screenplay. Now, rumor has it that David [...]
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Americans are big on discovery. We like being the ‘finders’ of all good things – like Google and apple pie and baseball…but in the case of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, we were not the first. Europe found Stieg Larsson, the Millenium Trilogy and Lisbeth Salander well before we did. They also found outstanding [...]
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It’s really no surprise. The actual girl with the dragon tattoo is completely hypnotic. And she’s not the norm. As a result, the actress that took this role had to do a complete 180 to become the character. Everyone wants to know how she did it, how it affected her life, if it still haunts [...]
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In this BBC interview of Noomi Rapace, the actress who plays Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, you might not even recognize our raven-haired, tattooed heroine. Rapace talks about playing this incredible character, how she prepared for the role and being the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – with her actor husband [...]
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Since most people – a well-known and successful actress, in particular – can’t possibly be anything like Lisbeth Salander, you just know that Noomi Rapace had to undergo a massive transformation to become the character she plays so well in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. PAPER Magazine finds out just how close to her [...]
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Fantastic, short interview with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (in U.S. theaters March 19) Director Niels Arden Oplev by Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells. They talk about cameras (while Niels examines the one on which he’s being recorded), the Millennium Trilogy’s filming schedule and even manage a little Twilight talk. Visit Wells’ site and the [...]
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From the intrigue surrounding Larsson’s untimely death in 2004 at the age of 50 to his political activities to his literary influences, the TimesOnline UK reveals it all. The Swedish author Stieg Larsson could be infuriating, self-destructive even, according to colleagues. It was typically inconsiderate of him to die before his crime novel The Girl [...]
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy of books and films are a phenomenon in Europe, though their author, Stieg Larsson, didn’t live to see his success. David Gritten goes to Stockholm to discover the story behind the stories, answer the questions surrounding the author’s untimely death and meet the actress who plays the Girl. [...]
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When Stieg Larsson died suddenly – totally unaware of the future success of his Millennium Trilogy – he had no will and wasn’t married to his partner, Eva Gabrielsson. What’s followed over the last 6 years is a battle over an inheritance worth 20 million and growing steadily. The Girl in the £20m Inheritance Battle [...]
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Tragically, Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and the Millennium Trilogy, died without knowing that the world he created for Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander has taken the world by storm. Christopher Hitchens examines that world and asks, how much of it, in fact, was real? The Author Who Played With [...]
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