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A movie about the glamorous world of archiving?
We hope there is a bit more to it as Robin Wright is eyeing directing "The Archivist" a film that follows "the United States’ premier archivist, who loses a precious account to his ex-wife in the UK and ends up desperately trying to win back the account, and eventually, his wife." So is it a comedy? A romantic drama? Oh what tangled webs we weave when we archive across borders.
The film has a script by Ann Cherkis whose only credit is a David Duchovny and Olivia Thirlby horror film, "The Secret." Colin Firth has been offered the lead role, but of course, it remains to be seen if any of this ends up coming together.
"The Social Network" is out in the world, and proving to be perhaps the most universally praised film of David Fincher's career, but we're not sure that the director's noticed, as he's now in Sweden, a few weeks into shooting on his next film, the adaptation of Stieg Larsson's blockbuster crime novel "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." And with filming underway, Fincher's spilled the beans on a handful of new additions to the cast.
The film toplines Daniel Craig as crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, and Rooney Mara as computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, with Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgard and, most recently, Christopher Plummer all on board. Recently, Fincher talked to Swedish paper SvD to promote "The Social Network," and revealed that Joely Richardson ("The Patriot"), Steven Berkoff ("The Tourist") and Swedish actor David Dencik are also on board, although there's no word of who they'll be playing.
At a guess, we'd say that Richardson is likely to play Cecilia Vanger, a member of the family at the heart of the film's central mystery, and one of three love interests in the film for Blomkvist (while some might find the journalist's success with women in the story implausible, it totally gels with our personal experiences -- we once totally watched the commentary on the Criterion edition of "Down By Law" with a girl in our mom's basement, and nearly made eye contact at one point). Berkoff, meanwhile, could be Nils Bjurman, Salander's corrupt guardian (who would feature heavily in the sequel, should it get that far).
Dencik is interesting, meanwhile; the star of Danish film "Brotherhood," he had a brief role in the Swedish adaptation of the book, as Blomkvist's treacherous colleague Janne Dahlman, the first cast member to bridge the two films. Whether he's reprising the character (a somewhat minor one, particularly in the version that hit the screens), or taking on another part isn't yet clear. IMDB also lists him in the cast for Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," so it seems like we'll be seeing much more of him.
Fincher also talked a little bit about his approach to the film to SvD, saying that "I'm looking to try to catch Sweden. I hope I can find an atmosphere reminiscent of 'Chinatown.'" It's an interesting quote (and one that suggests why Fincher would sign on to a project that seems to tread over old ground for the helmer), and one that makes us look forward to it even more. "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" hits theaters on December 21st, 2011.
Don't panic true believers. The sky is not falling. This morning a Swedish report making the rounds said Rooney Mara — the lead female in David Fincher's "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" — had "seriously injured" herself on the set of the movie, was hospitalized and the production had been shut down indefinitely.
Time to freak, Sony, producers, Scott Rudin, etc. right? The film is, after all, scheduled to shoot this fall and already has a release date of December 22, 2011.But Cinematical reached out to Sony today and apparently the story is completely false. Her raps tell THR the same thing; totally untrue. All is well that ends well (or actually never happened). As you were.
"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" stars Daniel Craig, Mara, Stellan Skarsgard and Robin Wright. According to IMDB, Swedish cinematographer Fredrik Bäckar is lensing the picture; his first time working with Fincher. Part of a trilogy based on a best-selling Swedish book -- not based on the Swedish film remakes -- the story centers on a journalist (Craig) aided in his search for a woman who has been missing -- or dead -- for forty years by a young female hacker (Mara).
Steven Zaillian adapted the screenplay from the original novel by Stieg Larsson (Zaillian's also an executive producer on the project) and while he's been one of the bigger screenwriters in Hollywood for years now — he won an Oscar for "Schindler's List" and was nominated for "Gangs of New York," and "Awakenings" — he's been white hot once again this year, having penned "Moneyball," 'Dragon Tattoo' as well as being hired to adapt the "Red Riding" trilogy — made into 3 brilliant U.K. films earlier this year — for Ridley Scott (plus myriad other high profile gigs). As of Spring 2010, the book had sold over 20 million copies in 41 countries, so Sony is really hoping these pictures will be a huge international hit.
People probably won't remember, but this has been a hot property for some time now and last summer it was reported that Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino were allegedly interested in acquiring the books. At least half of that is truth. Pitt was considered for the lead long before Craig came into the picture, but bowed out of the mix for unknown reasons.
A movie about the glamorous world of archiving?
