I'm still not sure what I think about Rooney Mara's look as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but I know I love Daniel Craig's as Mikael Blomqvist. Michael Nyqvist was good in the original, but he wasn't hot. Daniel Craig is hot, even if you stick him in Sweden in the winter. So it's got that going for it.

 

I got to see the new extended trailer on the big screen today and this movie does look all kinds of cool. It's got a jaw-droppingly good international cast including Christopher Plummer, Joely Richardson, Julian Sands, Goren Visnjic, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgard, Embeth Davidtz and Joel Kinnamon and an exciting plot wherein Craig's journalist Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Mara's Salander, a young computer hacker. And it's directed by David Fincher. They probably would have had me for this one even if it weren't based on an internationally known novel. (I just wish it weren't a remake of fantastic Swedish film. If I like this one, I'll feel disloyal. But…but…but…Daniel Craig!) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens December 21 in the US and Canada and 26 December in the UK.