A couple of months ago we got our first look at Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomqvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander. Now, thanks to Sony, we get a look at the other characters that people David Fincher’s English-language remake of Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!

I’m of two minds about these ‘character cards’. It’s great to get a look at Joely Richardson and Christopher Plummer in character. Plummer is, in my opinion, perfectly cast as Henrik Vanger. I am left to ponder, however, what the hell happened to Embeth Davidtz. Granted, it’s been awhile since I saw her in anything (probably 2005′s Junebug) but, she’s almost completely unrecognizable. (Seems to be a phenomenon exclusive to LA. Women over 40 starve themselves until they lose all of their body fat then have a facelift. Tragic. Maybe they need a telethon, an intervention at the very least.)

On the other hand, I’m wondering if they give too much away and are steering us in the direction they want us to go, rather than using the narrative of the film itself. Perhaps the producers are thinking that anyone interested is going to have read the books or seen the original film, which again begs the question, why make this version in the first place. I’m still not crazy about the poster. It seems to sexualize Lisabeth Salander and that would be missing the point entirely.

Oh well, I’ll let the character pics and descriptions speak for themselves. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens in the US & Canada on December 21 and in the UK on 26 December.