Chills In Sweden, The Director Chills 'Dragon Tattoo'

LOS ANGELES - For a guy who did Fight Club and Seven, David Fincher is apparently not one to be nervous by the Swedes.

She put it in the middle of the Swedish countryside, however, not only chills and winds from the north.

"It 'a different kind of world," says the director of the girl with the dragon tattoo, the 21 December.

"When the sun sets at 2 pm and winds which is 30 then you realize that these people are more consistent," Fincher said from his offices in Hollywood, where film editing is involved. "And I think," My God, how to survive that? "

This is Fincher said he often wondered discusses the novel 2005 by Stieg Larsson crime that serves as a center Fincher thriller with Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig. The book, the first part of the Millennium trilogy series, research on the misfortune of a journalist (Craig) and hacker (Mara) of a woman missing for 40 years.



The novel was adapted for a 2009 Swedish film starring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace. Fincher said he saw once.

"It 'a good movie," says Fincher the original, which earned a solid $ 10.1 million in the U.S.. "But we had to start the book. And 'the source of everything."

This and Sweden. Fincher, a filmmaker who is well-known attention to detail for the use of tens of taken to a scene, has spent months in Sweden for the film, which took 145 days to shoot.

Fincher said the arid landscape is a character in his films. "People do not live on top of each other in apartments," he said. "There is a house every mile and a half apart, and you are 4 feet of ice. That's incredible. There is a reason that this does not happen in Cleveland. "

One of the most difficult tasks of Fincher: to compress the 600-page book includes graphic rape and murder scenes. Summed Fincher is not without bloodshed - he also Panic Room and Zodiac director said he used the story "as a way to thumb my nose" at the Motion Picture Association of America, which gave an R rating on its first screening.

"I have much more colorful and sordid reputation as a supplier of violence than I deserve," says Fincher. "I just use it as a narrative device. (Tattoo) is an R-rated film, but we have no gynecologic with violence. I think we were so tasty that you can be a subject like it. "