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Two Teasers From Danish Cyber-Thriller MAN SOM HATAR KVINNOR (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO)
Posted by Todd Brown at 3:33pm.
Posted in Trailer Alerts , Thriller, Continental Europe & Russia.
Given the talent and history behind this film I’m finding information on Niels Arden Oplev’s Man Som Hatar Kvinnor remarkably difficult to come by. Based on who’s involved I’m assuming that this is dominantly a Danish production - Oplev’s previous picture To Verdener is this year’s Oscar submission from Denmark - but no information currently appears on the Danish Film Institute website and the first trailers to arrive on the scene, strangely, have actually come from Norway. But here’s what we know. The film is an adaptation of a popular novel by Steig Larsson with a story revolving around a police detective and a young female hacker. The script is by Nickolaj Arcel, himself a sought after director currently remaking his own hit fantasy adventure The Island of Lost Souls in English and boasting writing credits on Twitch faves such as Journey To Saturn and Fighter. With credentials like that you’d expect this to be something good and it’s certainly looking that way from the two released teasers, both of which you’ll find in the Twitch Player below the break.
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Swarez 11/03/2008 @ 4:58pm
That’s a weird english translation of The Man Who Hates Women.
cherub 11/03/2008 @ 6:33pm
This is actually a very Swedish thing but yeah produced by a Dane.
To a tad more spice to the pot - let’s just say that the adaptations of the Millennium-series by Stieg Larsson is the biggest thing to hit Sweden since Strindberg died? The publications of his book outsell Harry Potter by huge numbers and they have taken mainland Europe by storm as well.
Swede Daniel Alfredson, famed for Varg and TicTac, is doing the second and third installation - Flickan Som Lekte med Elden (The Girl Who Played With Fire) and Luftslottet som Sprängdes (not translated as of today)
ps. It’s actually Men Who Hate Women - there should be one of those nasty little Scandinavian vowels that turn men into plural. ds.
cherub 11/03/2008 @ 6:35pm
Amazon.com has the book as the best of the month for September:
“Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there’s no turning back. This debut thriller—the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson—is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch—and there’s always a catch—is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems in Larsson’s novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don’t want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. “
If that catches on - then yup Sweden will have two adaptations turned blockbusters in a very short time
Todd Brown 11/03/2008 @ 6:43pm
Weird. I actually checked the SFI site as well - and the sales agent - but neither of them had it listed, either. And I’m surprised a high profile Swedish film would use a Danish writer and director. Must be some people upset about that. Off to find the book!
cherub 11/03/2008 @ 7:00pm
Like the intro for the second teaser states it’s best-selling book in the nordic (scandinavia) ever so guess they’re just trying to tap into the marketability.
The info on SFI is always very limited but for “men who hate women” it says that the production is “Sweden, Germany and Denmark). Recorded in one of the older suburbs/garden cities of Stockholm
Reading on from http://www.zodiakinternational.com/pres/default.asp?iPressID=53
“Yellow Bird is producing six TV films based on the entire Millennium trilogy, as well as a feature film based on the first book “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. BIM has acquired the cinematic, TV and DVD rights to distribute both the TV films and the feature film in Italy and Italian speaking territories, with the cinematic release expected next year.”
MikeOutWest 11/04/2008 @ 2:00am
The book was indeed a great read (and I’m a little annoyed at the huge delay in releasing the second volume in English) but I’m not quite sure just how cinematic it’s going to be on screen. The ending especially is a little weak considering the intense investigation work that preceded it.