Tag: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Scarlet Witch Casting – A Geek’s Dream

 

Avengers Children's Crusade #7 by Jim Cheung courtesy Marvel.com

The actresses who played The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo have cast a spell on this comic book geek. I keep picturing both stars as Marvel’s tragic mutant heroine – Scarlet Witch aka Wanda Maximoff.

  Noomi Rapace starred in the Swedish films based on the Millenium Trilogy. Rooney Mara is playing Lisabeth Salander is the American version directed by David Fincher opposite Daniel Craig.

  Both actresses are stunning on-screen in appearance and their riveting performances.

  An actress who can portray Lisabeth Salander could certainly play Magneto’s tragic daughter who became an Avenger. A fragile woman with such destructive power looming under the surface.

 

Rapace would be perfect as an adult Scarlet Witch in an Avengers sequel. The idea first came to me after seeing Rapace play a gypsy in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Wanda and Pietro Maximoff were raised by a European gypsy family.

  With news that Director Matthew Vaughn and the cast have signed on for a sequel to X-Men: First Class my thoughts turn to a younger Wanda – when she was in Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants. I can’t get the idea of Mara as a younger Wanda in an X-Men: First Class sequel. Producers would have to make Michael Fassbender appear older since he would be playing her father.

AvX #0 art by Frank Cho courtesy Marvel.com

  Fans’ feelings about the Scarlet Witch may change after the outcome of Avengers Versus X-Men. Wanda’s sons are trying to redeem her in Avengers: The Children’s Crusade but she could give in to her dark side and dark chaos magic again in AVX.

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“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” Free Preview

 

Courtesy Vertigo and DC Comics The Source

  The bestselling book turned motion picture is coming to comic book stores. Today DC Comics The Source announced THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Special Edition Preview.

  This will be a free advance look at the Vertigo graphic novel adaptation of the international best-selling thriller. The adaptation is scheduled for November 2012 and features the acclaimed team of writer Denise Mina, artists Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti and cover artist Lee Bermejo. This Special Edition Preview is scheduled for April 18.

“The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” Graphic Novel Team

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo promo art courtesy DC Entertainment

  DC Entertainment announced the creative team for a new graphic novel based on Stieg Larsson’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.  Crime author Denise Mina will write the book. Lee Bermejo creates covers while Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti are the artists. It will be released in November 2012.

  “Denise, Lee, Leonardo and Andrea have such great passion for the material and stylistically they’re a perfect match to bring it to comics life. Their beautifully dark and visceral work will certainly blow us all away,” said Karen Berger, executive editor, Vertigo.

  Mina has written for Vertigo’s HELLBLAZER series and A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY graphic novel, also for Vertigo.

  Lee Bermejo is known for BATMAN: NOEL, a follow-up to the hit JOKER. Bermejo has also worked numerous comic series including Vertigo’s HELLBLAZER. Leonardo Manco worked on Vertigo’s HELLBLAZER comic. Andrea Mutti worked on graphic novel THE EXECUTOR from Vertigo, and then on the DMZ comic series.

  Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy feature computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist.

  The U.S. film version directed by David Fincher starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara is currently in theaters.

Daniel Craig Calls New James Bond Film “A Dream Situation”

AP Photo/Joel Ryan. Daniel Craig and the new Bond girls.

  Daniel Craig talks about the production on the new 007 movie Skyfall while doing promotion for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

  Craig says working with Director Sam Mendes “a dream situation” and “…the cast is stunning. I’m on the set, you know, with Ralph Fiennes, Judi Dench…Javier Bardem turned up the other day. I couldn’t be in a better place, we couldn’t be in a better place. Sam is doing an amazing job. The movie looks great. There’s going to be everything you want from a Bond movie…(laughs)just like I’m selling it doesn’t it, and more.”

  For more of Daniel Craig’s BBC audio interview including his praise for reporters and what the character Lisabeth Salander would think of James Bond click here. Craig’s character is a crusading journalist and Salander is his researcher in the new film based on the Millenium Trilogy.

Daniel Craig on SKYFALL Director

AP Photo/Joel Ryan. Daniel Craig and the new Bond girls.

Daniel Craig reveals his bigger behind the scenes role in the new 007 film Skyfall because of his experience on the last film Quantum of Solace to Time Out London.

Daniel Craig says he pushed for Sam Mendes as director of the next James Bond film.

“He’s English. He’s Cambridge educated, he’s smart. He’s lived with Bond his whole life. He grew up with Bond the way I did. I said to him, “We have to do this together, we have exactly the same reference points. We both like the same Bond movies. We both like the same bits in the same Bond movies we like.”

Craig referenced From Russia, With Love and Live and Let Die as films he talked about with Mendes.

Daniel Craig talks about working with David Fincher on his new film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in the exclusive interview with Time Out London.

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