Music Box Uncovers ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’

I had mentioned a while back how certain foreign film distributors might want to keep an eye out for Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels, the money-making first installment in a proposed trilogy of films is a mega hit in Europe – and now U.S. Audiences can expect to see the film next March. Screen Daily reports that Music Box Films have grabbed the rights to the pic – and if marketed to the right demo (Twilight fans, goth crowds, subtitled-friendly audiences who want something different) hey could make a big chunk of change – much like how they made a great run with Tell No One. 

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.