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Sunday, April 18, 2010
DRAGON TATTOO FILM ECHOES BLOW OUT
FINCHER TO DO AMERICAN REMAKE
Film projects come along every now and then that seem perfectly fit for someone like Brian De Palma. For instance, when I read the news this past week about Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell being signed to star in a formerly lost Stanley Kubrick project, the dark mystery Lunatic At Large, it immediately struck me that the material seemed suitable for De Palma (who also seemed to have had a solid working relationship with Johansson on The Black Dahlia a few years ago). Production Weekly stated that a director had not yet been confirmed, but that production would start later this year. Another De Palma associate, Edward R. Pressman, was at one time attached to produce Lunatic At Large, but no longer appears to be involved. In any case, according to a 2006 article in the New York Times, the 1956-set story, which was modern at the time that Kubrick originated the project with pulp author Jim Thompson, features promising set pieces which include "a car chase over a railroad crossing with a train bearing down," a "romantic interlude in a spooky, deserted mountain lodge," and "a nighttime carnival sequence in which Joyce [the main female character], lost and afraid, wanders among the tents and encounters a sideshow’s worth of familiar carnie types: the Alligator Man, the Mule-Faced Woman, the Midget Monkey Girl, the Human Blockhead, with the inevitable noggin full of nails."

Another film idea that seemed ripe for De Palma's touch is the American film adaptation of Steig Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which might also be described as a remake of the Swedish film adaptation of Larsson's Men Who Hate Women, which was directed by Niels Arden Oplev. The photo above is from Oplev's film, which, according to The Moviegoer's Paul Matwychuk, includes a scene where the main protagonist "uses a bunch of old photos to make an 'animated' film of [a missing girl's] last moments of freedom." Matwychuk adds that the "nicely edited sequence... holds its own against a similar scene from Brian De Palma’s Blow Out." De Palma a la Mod reader Kim Thompson agrees that the sequence "unmistakably" echoes Blow Out. A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that David Fincher has signed on to direct the American film version-- should be interesting.

Posted by Geoff at 4:18 PM CDT
Updated: Sunday, April 18, 2010 4:20 PM CDT
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Sunday, April 18, 2010 - 10:33 PM CDT

Name: "Adam Hamilton"

When I came out of seeing "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", I turned to my wife and said to her "I know David Fincher is doing the remake, but this would suit De Palma to a T".  All the while I was watching it, I was thinking about De Palma and what he would do with the set-pieces.  

Never heard about " Lunatic At Large" before, but you are right, from what you have revealed above that would also fit De Palm.  Man, I'm just hanging for anything new from the master!!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 8:49 AM CDT

Name: "Geoff"
Home Page: http://www.briandepalma.org

Hi, Adam-- I can't wait to see GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. I just watched the director interviewed by Charlie Rose-- he said his big inspiration while working on the script was Jonathan Demme's SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and also Fincher's ZODIAC. He also mentioned LA CONFIDENTIAL, for the way it begins with a little movie before entering the big picture. And Besson's NIKITA for the character of Lisbeth. He didn't mention De Palma, but I wouldn't be surprised, considering his taste and knowledge of film. The filmmaker he looks up to the most is John Cassavettes.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 10:25 AM CDT

Name: "Peet Gelderblom"
Home Page: http://www.outofsyncfilm.com

That sequence in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is eerily De Palma-esque. Wonderful film, too. The only trouble is: the original's done so well that it would be tricky to put a different directorial stamp on the source material and still have the scene be equally effective.

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