The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo; David Fincher ‘ “I’ve been working 20 years to have somebody say , ‘ We want as hard an R as you can make it’”.

Courtesy of Empire Magazine

In an interview with September’s issue of Empire magazine, David Fincher discusses the harshness of the novel and again reiterates the willingness, the desire even, of the studio (Sony) to make the film no holds barred. Hence the quote ‘“I’ve been working 20 years to have somebody say , ‘ We want as hard an R as you can make it’”’ . Added to Daniel Craig’s statement that film isn’t being made with restrictions, it is good news for anybody who somehow thought David Fincher would be interested in making a watered down version of the Swedish novel. 

(Also kudos to Empire for not joining several other, ‘lazy’, media and calling the film a remake. 

Courtesy of Empire Magazine

To quote Empire it is “...the US take on Stieg Larson’s astonishingly successful, surprisingly brutal book...”   Or to quote Fincher himself... " There is absolutely no reason to do this. Steve Zaillian has written the new screenplay, and he has been based on the book and made their own version. Sure, there are scenes that will resemble them in the Swedish film, but it is the book that we are filming...”

Fincher also compares the book – film to both The Exorcist and Silence of The Lambs. He feels that they are the only other examples of source material that is at once massively popular, and potentially very, very off putting and even repulsive to many. Having to courage to make a film that fully embraces that, as you have to if you’re going to bother at all, is no small matter. But Fincher makes the point that this is nly half the battle; the rest being ‘”...to find a place where you can be really hard-hitting – like the material it’s based on – and yet we also want to make it  a moviegoing experience.”’

Courtesy of Empire Magazine

The issue of Empire is out over the next few days and the film will be released on the 21^st of December in the US and the 26^th in the UK.

Country	Date
Canada	21-Dec-11
Denmark	21-Dec-11
Finland	21-Dec-11
Norway	21-Dec-11
Sweden	21-Dec-11
USA	21-Dec-11
UK	26-Dec-11
Hong Kong	05-Jan-12
Singapore	05-Jan-12
Estonia	06-Jan-12
India	06-Jan-12
Czech Republic	12-Jan-12
Germany	12-Jan-12
Spain	13-Jan-12
Turkey	13-Jan-12
France	18-Jan-12
Hungary	19-Jan-12
Netherlands	19-Jan-12
Italy	27-Jan-12
Japan	February 2012

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