Its Daniel Craig's Fault The Girl Who Played With Fire Has Stalled
Thu, January 31, 2013 
Don't know if Sony is fooling themselves or everyone else. If they're going to make The Girl Who Played With Fire (the second of the Millennium Trilogy), stop yapping. Go make it. All they're doing is kicking a slowly, deflating tire.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo didn't come anywhere close to its pre-release hype. Easily David Fincher's worst film (Alien 3 and Panic Room fans, high five!) and it didn't light a fire at the box-office. Not a soul is clamoring for the return of Lisbeth Salander and the key principles have moved on just fine.
David Fincher recently picked Gone Girl as his next project, Daniel Craig is coming off Skyfall (the biggest James Bond in history) and Rooney Mara scored an Oscar nomination as Salander (well-deserved; the film's criticisms notwithstanding) and got lots of good gigs lined-up like Side Effects and Terrence Malick's latest.
Latest excuse come Sony's way is Craig wants too much money. He headlined the first $1 billion grossing 007 and figures he's due a pay-raise. They're threatening to write his character outta the script. Smells like an empty threat. Mikael Blomkvist wasn't the prominent character in the book, true, but they want Craig's mug on the posters for international appeal.
In real life, if someone spent this much time promising to do something and they still hadn't, guess what? They're never going to. Once they settle with Craig, look for another excuse why The Girl Who Played With Fire hasn't been made.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Reader Comments (1)
I don't feel sorry for the people who are still waiting for a sequel because if you don't see the writing on the wall by now that is your fault for engaging in willful ignorance.