14 DAY TRIAL // One of the biggest and most anticipated films of late 2011 was “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. A sequel is still in the pipeline, despite the disappointing box office performance.
Most critics loved the film, which is based on the Swedish film based on Stieg Larsson's “Millennium” novels.
Audiences, though, seemed to shun it.
It's not that the film was a flop, but it wasn't the smashing hit that Sony believed it would be and, in a different scenario, this alone would be enough to convince the studio to pull the plug on it.
IGN Movies reports that the mellow box office reception will not deter Sony from making the sequel.
“'Development continues' on the sequel. '[Dragon Tattoo] continues to do strong business and nothing has changed with respect to development of the next book,' said [a] source,” the movie-oriented e-zine writes.
Next up should be “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest,” all starring the same two titular characters.
There's no doubt that Mara and Craig would return for the sequels, since they're actually contractually bound to the franchise.
David Fincher, though, is not, so he might already be out of the picture, pun intended.
The ironic part is that, less than two weeks ago, Fincher himself was talking about the sequels as if they were a given – as also was his involvement in them.
Also then, he hinted that both films would shoot back-to-back because it would make more sense this way because of the story, as we also informed you at the time.
“I don’t think Rooney wants to be doing this four years from now. So I think that would be crazy especially given the sense that it’s really one story that’s kind of bifurcated in the middle,” Fincher said.