If you are still waiting for an English-language adaptation of The Girl Who Played With Fire, you can stop now. Rooney Mara said this week that it is unlikely that the sequel to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo will be made.
In an interview with E! News, Mara said at the Oxfam dinner in New York that she thinks the project is dead.
"I don't think it's going to happen," she said. "I'm sad never to do it again, but it just doesn't seem like it's in the cards."
Played With Fire is in an interesting position, because all of the principals from Sony’s Dragon Tattoo adaptation actually want to return, but it’s not going to happen. Even director David Fincher has said he’d like to make the next movie. But considering that the Dragon Tattoo wasn’t an overwhelming box office success, Sony has never made a serious effort to make Played With Fire.
“I think because [Sony] already has spent millions of dollars on the rights and the script so it will result in something,” Fincher said in an interview with Swedish site Alfton Bladet, Indiewire reported in September. “The script that we now have a huge potential, I can reveal as much as it is extremely different from the book.”
Fincher’s Dragon Tattoo was actually the second adaptation of the Stieg Larsson book. In the author’s native Sweden, all three of his Millenium Trilogy novels were adapted, starring Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander. Mara played the role in Fincher’s film and earned an Oscar nomination for it.
Fincher’s film grossed $233 million worldwide and won the 2011 Oscar for Best Editing. Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer and Robin Wright co-starred.
While there may be little interest from the public for another brutal, dark and depressing movie like Dragon Tattoo, there is still interest in the books. Indeed, publisher Norstedts is releasing That Which Does Not Kill, the first novel about Salander written by David Lagercrantz. Larsson died in 2004, just after finishing the first three books.
Fincher has been keeping himself busy while waiting for Sony to make up its mind on Played With Fire. He just directed Gone Girl (another adaptation of a popular novel) and is working on new HBO projects.
As for Mara, she stars in Warner Bros.’ upcoming Peter Pan movie Pan.
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