Remake Drama: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I saw the movie adaptation of this recently popular Swedish book and was pleasantly surprised. I had no idea what it was about when I went into it and was slightly disturbed by its gritty material and dark storyline, but it had great characters and an interesting mystery that keeps you intrigued even throughout the 152 minute running time. But no sooner had seen this great Swedish film than I read online a few days later that Hollywood is already planning an American remake.

I'm sure by now everyone's realized Hollywood is running out of ideas for original screenplays so almost everything is now at the mercy of being REMADE. Even though some freak out about this trend, it's not all that bad a lot of the times and you quickly forget about these remakes (such as The Wolfman because it sucked). But when you remake a foreign film that came out like 3 months ago, that's taking it a bit too far.There's nothing you could do to make this movie any better. At least, it'd be very difficult. 

Now there's news that David Fincher is planning to direct the American remake with Carey Mulligan playing the said girl with the dragon tattoo, Lisbeth, a brilliant computer hacker. And now apparently Fincher is trying to get Daniel Craig to play Mikael, the journalist turned detective in this story. Even though the initial idea of remaking this movie pissed me off, I have to say, I have no problem with the pairing of this story with Fincher, Mulligan, and Craig. As we all know, Fincher is fantastic when it comes to dark and disturbing so there's no doubt he'd get that right, and Mulligan bears a striking resemblance to Noomi Rapace, the Swedish actress who played Lisbeth. Craig also resembles Michael Nyqvist fairly well and could do a great job at pulling off some of the more intense situations in the movie. 

So in the end, Fincher's take on this film could be great. But that doesn't dismiss the fact that Americans are being greedy, pretentious jerks again and stealing other people's movies. There's been similar controversy (probably even more) over an American remake of Let the Right One In. I thought the original Swedish film was a great vampire flick, far superior to most,  but I can understand why this one is being remade because there's a bit more freedom with setting, age, gory details,conflict, and just all around details of the plot. Remaking Dragon Tattoo would just be a cop out, it'd be too easy. Everything's already perfectly laid out and I can't see much if any room for different interpretations or messing with details. I don't know, I guess I can't say for sure till the casting is finalized and then ultimately the movie comes out. I've included the trailer for the original Dragon Tattoo below so you can get sort of an idea of how this movie feels. Sadly, it's not a very good trailer but whatever.