The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 psychological crime thriller film based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. This film adaptation was directed by David Fincher and written by Steven Zaillian. Starring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, it tells the story of Blomkvist's investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years prior. He recruits the help of Salander, a computer hacker. Sony Pictures Entertainment began development on the film
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) welcome humor in Mikael's impassive affect". In his 2016 assessment of Craig's career for Taste of Cinema, Eoghan Lyng ranked this portrayal as one of his best. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" said the film was given a more assured quality than the original because of Fincher's direction and the lead performances, although he believed this did not always work to the film's advantage, preferring the original version's "less confident surface" where "emotions were closer to the surface." In addition to numerous awards, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was included on several year-end lists by film commentators and