We have a guest post by Cupcaketron:
Yesterday, the web was hit with the “leaked” red band trailer of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I was able to see it before Sony yanked it and released the nicer, cleaner official version today. Sony did a pretty thorough job cleaning it up, as I can’t find it anywhere on the Net. Sorry, folks.
The trailer has a pretty quick-cut editing job, just showing images of action and expressions (and with the red band version, boob and blood). However, what makes the trailer seem so particularly haunting is Trent Reznor’s cover of Immigrant Song, with Karen O howling the lyrics. The trailer ends with a lead-up to the estate of where the mystery is set, giving it kind of a Shining-type feel. The tagline of “THE FEEL BAD MOVIE OF CHRISTMAS” ends it with a certain gritty atmosphere.
You can see the official green band trailer here, though.
As a fan of the book and the Swedish movie (not the subsequent books), it’s hard to not get excited about this. While the title character of Lisbeth Salander isn’t really the main character, she is somewhat of a unique heroine that us geek girls secretly wish they could be.
As a fan of the Swedish treatment, it’s really difficult to not draw comparisons. It’s my understanding that this movie with follow closely to the book in the same way the original version did, which means it’ll be a difficult task making it a stand-alone movie. However, Fincher has a way with making grit seem grittier, so this might actually turn out to be a unique movie.