There was quite the flutter this weekend when a red-band trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo leaked online. Not only was it our first look at the highly-anticipated movie, the very nature of its release soon became suspicious.
The image quality was surprisingly good for something shot in a theater, the audio was pristine and in stereo, the trailer wasn’t taken down on Youtube despite getting over 1.5 million hits, the account which had uploaded the video had only been registered that day and till date, that video is the only thing it has uploaded. Moreover, that account was traced back to the Netherlands – which would make the MPAA warning that appears at the start quite baffling. So, it being the Memorial Day weekend (and hence light on news), speculation grew intense that the “leak” was actually from the studio itself, a savvy piece of marketing that paid off handsomely.
Anyway, the green-band trailer for the film (and the first official preview, depending on your point of view) went online today and I’ve linked to it after the jump.
You can download the trailer (in HD!) from this link and here is an embed, via Trailer Addict -
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures’ three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian.
It’s basically the same as the red-band trailer, with a few obvious excises – there’s no topless Rooney Mara in this one, for example. The trailer itself is awesome, a brash procession of stills set to a Karen O cover of Led Zeppelin’s “The Immigrant Song.” They’re being coy about revealing the actual plot of the movie and since they are six months away from release, I don’t begrudge them for that. Bonus points for the taglines “The feel-bad movie of Christmas” (trailer) and “Evil shall with evil be expelled” (poster).
I’m still a little confused regarding my feeling for this film. On one hand, the material seems like a good fit for Fincher and he will improve on the Swedish adaptions. On the other hand, this entire venture seems irrelevant since those adaptations came out just a little while ago. As James Rocchi said, “the trailer’s a slideshow from a trip already taken.”
I’ll hold my judgment until December 21st 2011, because that’s when Sony plans to release the film.
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Tom Smith
