The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo doesn’t even hit theatres until December, but we are lucky enough to see a trailer for the much-anticipated film based on the book written by Stieg Larsson (who died November 9, 2004) as part of his Millenium Trilogy series which wasn’t published until after his death.

Rooney Mara Is ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’

For those of you unfamiliar with the book it is said to be based on:

Larsson [who] witnessed the gang rape of a young girl when he was 15. He never forgave himself for failing to help the girl, whose name was Lisbeth – like the young heroine of his books, herself a rape victim, which inspired the theme of sexual violence against women in his books.

How very sad that that happened at all, but it speaks volume of him that it haunted him until his death at the age of 50. The other two books that make up this trilogy are The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

Have you read the book? I’ve not read the book but the trailer looks very intriguing. Will you watch this movie?