Posts Tagged ‘Stieg Larsson’
Lisbeth Manque: Rating the Runners Up for Rooney Mara's Role of a Lifetime
Here’s our alternate-reality breakdown of how these actresses might have filled Lisbeth’s Doc Martens.
Exclusive Interview: The Informationist Author Taylor Stevens
Author Taylor Stevens sat down with Word & Film for a wide-ranging interview about her sources of inspiration and own incredible story.
After Scandinavian Fatigue Sets In, Which Foreign Crime Library Will Hollywood Raid Next?
Summit Entertainment recently revealed its plans to produce an English-language remake of Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters. But once cold-climate crime ennui inevitably sets in, detective fiction novelists Japan, Italy and South Africa are ready to fill that void.
Arcade Fire Video Director to Base Feature on Danger Mouse's Rome and Alden Bell's The Angels Are the Reapers
Talk about a harmonic convergence of hipsters, though this isn’t your average Jonze-Gondry-Mark stylized filmmaking set to indie rock.
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Sit Down and Buckle Up: A New Trailer for 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Has Arrived
Big Hollywood just may have done right by Larsson’s international bestselling trilogy of socio-politically inflected crime thrillers.
Is David Fincher Behind a Stealth Blog About the Making of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
Speculation is now heating up about the insider origins of Mouth-Taped-Shut.com.
Northern Lights: The Best of the Scandinavian Crime Fiction Invasion
Fox beat out the competition to develop an hour-long drama series based on Leif GW Persson’s bestselling crime novels, which is just the latest conquest in Hollywood’s hot and heavy love affair with Scandinavian crime fiction. As studios and networks fill their slates with adaptations based on Nordic bestsellers, they’re banking that audiences are primed for it. Here’s a short primer on the most interesting of Scandinavian crime fiction headed for screens. First up: David Fincher’s adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo …
Lisbeth 101: David Fincher Shares New Photos from The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, Trenchant Insight Included
Fincher offers the most substantial glimpse yet at his take on TGWTDT as the filmmaker lets slip what he sees as the point of Larsson’s story.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Trishna, and The Moth Diaries Lead a Phalanx of Fall Film Photos Fighting for our Fealty
We’ve curated an exhibit of the best shots recently released from movies based on books, both classic (“Trishna” = Tess of the D’Urbervilles) and the kind to which we’ve sacrificed an entire night’s sleep (“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “The Moth Diaries”). Guided Tour included.
Five Fall Films to File Under: ‘This Better Be Great or There Will Be Hell to Pay’
This is the elite class of fall release for which failure is simply not an option.
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