There has been so much speculation about who will be cast as the lead in David Fincher’s upcoming American adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, that there has been little talk about where the movie will be filmed.
Many thought that the director would choose to move the film’s setting to the U.S. (from Sweden) to make it more, well, American, but Fincher recently revealed he had no such intention.
He recently told MTV News that he plans to keep the setting the same and film the movie in Sweden. “Stockholm. Uppsala. In the north,” he said of the film’s planned location. “You have to. What, are you going to put it in Seattle?”
The movie is sure to bring with it an influx of fans (there are none more passionate than those dedicated to Dragon) who want to see the movie be filmed, or visit its locations after they’ve seen the completed film. As my colleague JetSetCD over at Jaunted pointed out, “Just think of what the movie In Bruges did for the sleepy Belgian town’s tourism. Years after the criminal drama, people are still coming to stare up at the town square’s clock tower and its cold canals. Sweden, you’re next!”
The movie will be based on the first of Stieg Larsson’s three Millennium novels. The plot focuses on two unforgettable Swedish characters, Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist hired to solve a 40-year-old missing-person case, and Lisbeth Salander, a dark and damaged hacker who joins the investigation.
Daniel Craig has been cast as Blomkvist but Fincher is still looking for his Salander.
