When I heard about a forthcoming American version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (long story short: it’s the first book of a best-selling Swedish mystery thriller trilogy, which made it to the silver screen already, but is now being redone for idiots who don’t understand subtitles in films), I expected it to be filmed in, y’know, Seattle or something. Pennsylvania. Anywhere but Sweden.
Anyway, so I was pretty jazzed to read that the film is actually going to be filmed in Sweden (which, among other things, is where my dad’s side of the family hails from).
Entertainment Weekly confirms that Craig, 42, has signed to play the lead in the American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling mystery novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, to be released Dec. 21, 2011, and followed by two other movies based on Larsson’s Millennium trilogy.
Filming will take place in Sweden, David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) will direct, and Scott Rudin will produce. So far, no one has been cast in the role of Lisbeth Salander, though Ellen Page, Mia Wasikowska and Rooney Mara have been mentioned.
This might just be me, but I think they should just cast Noomi Rapace. She already knows the part!
And since we’re talking about Steig Larsson’s books making it to the silver screen, let me jump back in time one week, to last Monday, when I was lucky enough to be accompanied by the Suicide_Blond to the E Street Cinema to see the adaptation of the second book in the trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire.
Here’s a quick review: while The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was filmed for the Silver Screen, the two other books were adapted as TV miniseries, and this was particularly evident in the graininess of the picture at E Street. It’s been well over a year since I read the book, so I’m not entirely sure what never made it into the film, except to say that while they kept the major plot points of the book, a considerable amount is left out. Beyond the image itself, the presentation of subtitles was disappointing: too often, the subtitles were lost into the images of the film.
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Last week: 237
This week: 234.5
Difference: -2.5lbs
Still not a lot of walking home from work after work, but hopefully I’ll get back on that today. I spent copious time (an hour each day) in the gym Saturday and Sunday, and my surprise early release from my day job yesterday allowed me to make an unexpected trip to the exercise bike as well. Things looking good, can’t fucking wait for autumn.
My office is in northern Bethesda (like, “We’re too cool to be Rockville, so let’s call ourselves Bethesda” Bethesda), and with the summer storm on Sunday, our building was one of those affected by the power loss. Apparently, building management was telling people “It’ll be back soon, it’ll be back soon”, but as it was, power wasn’t actually restored until three o’clock this morning: I know this because that’s the time stamp on the email from our CFO. None the less, they kept us here until 10am yesterday before finally closing the office.
We were, quite literally, the last office in the building to close.
In any case, it was nice to get to go home early: I played some Red Dead Redemption, had scrambled eggs for lunch, and spent forty-five minutes on an exercise bike. I also got a panicked call from the Bookstore asking me if I’d already left my other job.
“Well, yeah, like four hours ago!” At which point I was told that I needed to go work at our sister store on 14th Street that night.
As you might know (especially if you click the link there), the store is closing in August, due primarily to a massively expensive lease that Clyde’s (restaurant chain) wants to take over. It was so depressing: the staff was cheery, but I wonder how much of that was just an illusion, the customers? I mean, most of ‘em were just “buy my books and get the hell out of the door”, but a lot of people were openly belligerent: Why don’t you have this book or DVD in stock? I want to buy these books, but I’d like to wait for the price to drop more – why won’t you hold them for me?
My favorite was: “What do you mean ‘all sales final’? I can’t return this?” Yes, shockingly, that is indeed what is meant by “all sales final.”
Really, it just felt like a bunch of vultures picking over a diseased corpse. The “All Sales Final, Everything Must Go!” and “Buy fixtures & tables!” signs really sort of added to the free-for-all feeling: I really have a lot of sympathy for the staff remaining, I can’t imagine it would be easy for me having to work the final weeks if my store was going out of business.
I’m back at my store tonight, and I can’t express how happy I am about that. Mostly because I actually know where sections are: a rather assholeish European demanded directions to the Health section last night and when I told him I had no idea where it was, he scorned me: “How long have you worked here?” To which of course I replied: “Two minutes, asshole.” (Minus the “asshole” part, which I really should have left in).
