Trent Reznor Scoring Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Remake
This should get plenty of folks excited
In a live Times Talk with Trent Reznor, the musician confirms he will again be working with director David Fincher and score his upcoming The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake, currently set for a December 21 release later this year. Reznor mentioned he and Atticus Ross had been working on the Dragon Tattoo score for the past two months.
Reznor scored Fincher's The Social Network with Ross and is currently looking at a potential Oscar nomination (if not a win) as a result of the much loved, electronically infused score.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is based on Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling novel and centers on a murder mystery looking as far back as 40 years at the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption. Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright, Joely Richardson, Steven Berkoff, David Dencik and Christopher Plummer co-star.
I've included "Hand Covers Bruise" from Reznor's Social Network score directly below.
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god that is a good call
o and this is totally not a remake
So it's not being "made again"? Just clarifying.
fincher, much like the coens with true grit, never even saw the original film, i find it hard to consider a film a remake when the book is the source of inspiration and the script. Although something like Let me In was more like a remake then another approach at the material.
Also the original was made for television i believe and one can only hope wont even come close to what a director like fincher can create
The first film was shot for theatrical release. However, the two sequels were made for television.
Have you even watched the original movies? How can you criticize something that you haven't even watched?
Although with Let Me In they swore up and down it was not a remake, and based on the book. I think with the public turning sour on remakes, the studios are try to rewrite the vocabulary. Reboot, retelling etc. The studio probably picked Fincher in part because he hadn't seen the original and would bring his own voice. Second, I believe The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was always a theatrical release, whereas the sequels were originally made for tv, but then released in theaters instead due to the popularity of the first.
Great news
I think this is about the most exciting film score news I have heard.
I think we can accept that Fincher has enough integrity to make his own movie without putting down the Danish-Swedish one. Rapace, Oplev and co made a great film. I hope that Finchers film and the build up introduces more people to the source material and Rapace's performance.
Trent Reznor scoring "Dragon Tattoo"… eh, I'm ambivalent about it. Reznor and Atticus Ross worked well on "The Social Network" was because of the subject matter and such.
Something like "Dragon Tattoo" deserves a moody score from either Howard Shore or Alexandre Desplat. Something with dark subject matter deserves something emotional, not textural.
I disagree that Reznor's work isn't emotional. I think that with the techno-thriller vibe of the book, Reznor would work quite well…
dont forget that he said that it will be quite different from his score for the social network
I hear what you're saying, Matt C but I think we should credit Rezor as a muscian and not assume that he's going to recycle The Social Network score.
He might weave something totally original based on the Fincher's direction.
We'll wait and see though.
p.s. I loved the music in Swedish Dragon Tattoo.
I love this score, but Hans Zimmer's Inception score is much better.