Sony Saving Face - Insists The Girl Who Played With Fire Still a Go
Tue, January 3, 2012 
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo wasn't the money-magnet Sony spent all that dough hyping it up to be. As everything goes back to normal as this week progresses including the box-office, Sony is left standing in the aftermath of Dragon Tattoo's underwhelming intake.
Like every other studio backed in a corner (of their own doing), they're swearing The Girl Who Played with Fire will still commence as planned to EW:
"[Dragon Tattoo] continues to do strong business and nothing has changed with respect to development of the next book."
They go as far to reiterate old information (dating back to before Dragon Tattoo opened) to "prove" everything is still a go, i.e. Steven Zaillian, the high-dollar, Oscar-winning scribe is adapting Stieg Larsson's second Millennium trilogy novel and stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig contractually bound for follow-up films. Also re-confirmed is the iffy subject matter of whether or not David Fincher will return to direct.
It's too soon to close the book on this however. Dragon Tattoo has barely opened in the foreign territories (where it was always going to make its bread-and-butter). So it's possible we haven't seen the last of Mara as Lisbeth Salander. Just don't take the word of this update. It's nothing more than Sony trying to save face.
Reader Comments (1)
This is good news to me! I'm a fan of the Swedish movie trilogy and after seeing Fincher's American version twice I'm all for The Girl Who Played With Fire directed by David Fincher. No one else. :)