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Beautiful Stockholm at night, looking west towards Gamla Stan
Reviewing what we already know -the second U.S trailer for Skyfall http://www.sonypictures.com/previews/movies/skyfall/clips/5074/ "Some men are coming to kill us. We're going to kill them first." Skyfall, directed by Sam Mendes, opens in U.K. cinemas October 26th and in U.S. theaters November 9th, and as everyone has known for months because it's the worst-kept 'secret' of the year, Adele will besinging the new title song. As I've mentioned in my previous posts about this film, Skyfall isthe first 007 film to be only filmed inIMAX.
jamesbond007 video: Naomie Harris and Bérénice Marlohe on their roles in new 007 film, Skyfall. Uploaded September 20, 2012. http://youtu.be/diFTdVBYISg M: "Think on your sins."
jamesbond007 video: Skyfall director Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig talk about the role of the London locations to show the essential Britishness of James Bond by showing real but iconic places he would frequent, but from unusal and perhaps even menacing perspectives. Uploaded August 16, 2012. http://youtu.be/dl218z68iC4
jamesbond007 video: On the set in Turkey for the shooting of the opening sequences of the film that sets up the premise. Uploaded September 7, 2012. http://youtu.be/sYEpEseJl9U
See the studio stage here, including a 360 view, at:
The first teaser trailer for the new James Bond film, Skyfall, was released today to set the mood for the millions of eager 007 fans around the world. May 21, 2012.http://youtu.be/xJ4dAY3DW4c
"Some men are coming to kill us. We're going to kill them first."
Skyfall, the first 007 film to be only filmed inIMAX, opens in the U.K. on October 26th and in the U.S. on November 9th, the first Friday after the election. Directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem and Naomie Harris. And yes, once upon a time, the amazing Rachel Weisz dated Mendes for three years before breaking-up in 2002; she's now married to Craig since last year's surprise wedding.
Over 284,000 people have already seen this teaser within the first 12 hours it's been online...
Columbia Pictures/MGM video: 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Theatrical Trailer. Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Christopher Plummer, Joely Richardson and Robin Wright, directed by David Fincher, screenplay by Steven Zaillian, opening December 21st in the U.S.
This new theatrical trailer is certainly very good news for those of us who have been closely following the latest news and developments with the new English-language film adaption of Stieg Larsson'sThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, slated to open December 21st.
I say that because while it was very effective, the previous trailer, which I have posted here previously and below, was more atmosphere and question marks than hints for those out there who've never read the book or who seen the Swedish version of the first of the trilogy, Män som hatar kvinnor, ("Men who Hate Women") that starred Noomi Rapace as enigmatic Lisbeth Salanderand Mikael Nyqvist as savvy journalist Mikael Blomkvist, the roles to be assumed by Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig under director David Fincher.
Over the next three months, I'll be posting things I see, read or hear here or overseas about the film to keep you apprised of what's what.
My last post on the film and the trilogy, with lots of videos and some Swedish material you probably haven't seen, was on June 2nd, titled, Trailer & news re David Fincher's version of Stieg Larsson's 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,' starring Daniel Craig & Rooney Mara; opens Dec. 21st.
CBS News Sunday Morning video: Erin Moriarity on the "Millennium" phenomena, inc. the Millennium tour in the Södermalmpart of Stockholm. Stieg Larsson: Behind "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". October 10, 2010.
Teaser trailer for David Fincher's version of Stieg Larsson's 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'
Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Christopher Plummer, Joely Richardson and Robin Wright, directed by David Fincher, screenplay by Steven Zaillian, opening December 21st in the U.S.
I was going to write about the film a week ago but I'm now glad that I was patient and waited.
It's time to get to the heart of the nagging question hanging over this upcoming film, once you've FINALLY accepted the idea that it was inevitable that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo would be remade for American/English-speaking audiences worldwide.
I know a LOT of holdouts who don't like the idea of the remake one little bit, largely because they're concerned -rightly so in their eyes- that remaking a film/series that Noomi Rapace was positively mesmerizing in as Lisbeth Salander, is insulting to her personally, and the general notion of its uniquely Swedish aspects and pride of place.
I completely understand that line of argument(s) and am not completely unsympathetic to it, but,
a.) the reality is that the second part of show biz is, of course, bu$ine$$, and,
b.) there simply were NOTand are NOT enough people around -like me- who went to see the original films in Swedish directed by, respectively, Niels Arden Oplev and Daniel Alfredson, and,
c.) Director David Fincher has allayed at least some of those concerns by filming a lot in Sweden, starting last September in Stockholm.
He was quoted as saying in Svenska Dagbladet, SvD, that he wants to "find an atmosphere reminiscent of 'Chinatown.'"
I loved the originals, but they were not Gone With The Wind or Casablanca, consequently, I'm not going to be ridiculous about this remake, though I will say that I hope it's ten times better than any recent American remake of any of a number of good French films turned-out.
SVT had this video of journalist Mikael Blomqvist (Daniel Craig) at the train station in Sollefteå last week; may be the least interesting video ever posted here!
Check-out this interesting video by Oskar at discjunkietvwho was up in Uppsala a few months ago when the cast and crew were doing a 1960's flashback sequence involving a parade thru downtown. He was very determined to get an eye on what was doing.
Once you're past that temporary roadblock about the philosophical question of the remake, you confront the large double-edged sword hanging above this production and how it's received by theater-goers, something a well-read person like you no doubt already realizes and understands, is the question of 25-year old Rooney Mara'sperformance on screen.
(Or as a female friend of mine with lots of style has emailed me from Sverige,"WTF's the deal with that hairdo she's wearing?)
It's the consensus opinion of everyone on both sides of the Atlantic that I trust who had already seen the Swedish language versions of the trilogy that this David Fincher adaption will succeed or falter based almost entirely on Mara's performance as Lisbeth Salander, regardless of how great everyone and everything else in the film may be, including the menacing music. Anything too heavy-handed will detract from a story that was serious and stark in tone.
As I mentioned in several emails to friends around the country trying to persuade them to seek out the first film in the series in early 2009, Oplev'sMän som hatar kvinnor("Men who hate women"), which is known here as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I loved the scary trailer.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -Swedish release with Danish subtitles, 2009
Here's the latest news from SVT on Monday about director DavidFincher's first public words about the film while appearing last Friday at the Swedish Film Institute, SFI, answering questions from Roger Wilson. It's well-worth reading. http://blogg.svt.se/film/2011/05/fincher-rapport-och-dragon-tattoo-trailer/
By the way, speaking of the film remake, has any current actor you can think of ever transformed more successfully from almost always playing articulate and thoughtful film characters you rooted for, to consistently playing evil, malevolent bad-asses quite like Christopher Plummer, who here in the remale, will play someone both curious and afraid about the answer to a mystery? (And Joely's Richardson's....)
Ever since Plummer'sperformance as Chang in Star Trek VI twenty years ago, he's really gone over to the dark side and played one oleaginous and creepy character after another
And been completely believable.
Auf Wiedersehen, Captain von Trapp!
Ironically, Swedish actor Mikael Nyqvist, someonewhom I first came to appreciate in 2004's Oscar-nominated Så som i himmelen(As It Is in Heaven), a film that I previously mentioned here on July 2, 2009 in a post titled ABBA Geniuses At It Again: Story Of A Heart, featuring Helen Sjöholm, Words & Music by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
and who was so excellent in the three Swedish-language versions of the Millennium trilogy as hard-working reporter Mikael Blomkvist, will now be playing a villain opposite Tom Cruise in the next Mission Impossiblerelease, which is nummer fyra -number four- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,coming out December 16th
That post of mine also mentioned Gabriella's Song, the great song from the film, and two versions of it as sung by two super-talented singers, Helen Sjöholm in the film and Molly Sandén on the popular SVT singing TV show, Så ska det låta, back when Molly was sixteen -three years ago!
As some of you know, that film, with Nyqvist cast as a man of the world who unexpectedly finds love in a small Swedish town -his childhood hometown- while trying to get away from it all, is one that Swedish women of every age group absolutely love to death.
They positively start tearing-up when they hear the first few bars of it...
Really.
As it is in Heaven (Så Som I Himmelen) - GabriellasSång
'Cowboys & Aliens' Trailer -starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford & Olivia Wilde, directed by Jon Favreau. Opening July 29, 2011. http://youtu.be/eJixNxFxhT4
Did I mention that our long national nightmare was over and that actress Olivia Wilde was finally back where we could keep a close eye on her -the small screen?(Regardless of whether you watch her on a flat screen or in Hi-Def.) Yes, Jon Favreau's interesting-looking 'Cowboys & Aliens' flick is the answer to what had happened to our dear "Thirteen" onFox-TV's 'House' the past few months. And as we saw this past week, she returned to the show where she was the most enigmatic character on TV, and what a story she had for House to explain her asbsence. One which upon hearing stopped him short, and cut shoprt his usual lacerating, snarky wit. http://perezhilton.com/2011-04-12-olivia-wilde-returns-to-house
She's been internally channeling her own version ofHigh Noon and Shane, desert ranch wear and Erwin Rommel's desert military tactics for this upcoming summer film set in the Arizona Territory of 1873, and we now have a peek at the results. It's not much of a Spoiler Alert to say that Olivia Wilde looks positively kick-ass in this film, and uses sexiness as a force multiplier. As a result, in a few months, we will no doubt be seeing her greeting us from the cover of MANY, MANY magazines at news stands and bookstores around the world. You don't have to be Nostradamus to know that's one prediction that will definitely come true!
