The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (film)
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest is a 2009 Swedish thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson
. It is based on the bestselling novel of the same name
by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson
, the third and final entry in his "Millennium series". More were to follow, but because Larsson died suddenly, were never completed. The movie is also the last film for veteran actor Per Oscarsson
, who died in a house fire on December 31, 2010.
Lisbeth Salander
is hospitalized after the meeting with her father, and later put on trial. Mikael Blomkvist
takes on the task of proving she is innocent as he continues to uncover the reasons why Lisbeth has been treated so harshly by the Swedish authorities.
, left off. Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace
) is airlifted to a hospital in Gothenburg
. Surgeons remove bullets from her shoulder, hip and head, bullets fired by her father, Alexander Zalachenko (Zala). She is cared for by Dr. Jonasson (Aksel Morisse), who prevents anyone except her lawyer from visiting.
At the same time Evert Gullberg (Hans Alfredson
) and Fredrik Clinton (Lennart Hjulström
), old colleagues from the "Section," a group within the Swedish Security Service
, reconnect and decide that they must silence Zalachenko and Lisbeth to preserve cold war secrets. Zalachenko (Georgi Staykov
) is still alive, in a hospital room down the hall from Lisbeth.
Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist
) asks his sister, Annika (Annika Hallin), to be Lisbeth's lawyer in her up-coming murder trial. Gullberg arrives at the hospital at the same time as Annika, proceeds to Zalachenko's room, and shoots him dead. Annika saves Lisbeth by barricading the door to Lisbeth's room, preventing Gullberg from killing her too. Gullberg then shoots himself. Clinton visits psychiatrist Dr. Peter Teleborian (Anders Ahlbom), and explains his plan to silence Lisbeth by having her committed to St. Stephen's mental hospital again. Teleborian tries to meet with Lisbeth to conduct a psychological evaluation but is prevented by Dr. Jonasson.
Mikael Blomkvist persuades Dr. Jonasson to sneak an internet phone into Lisbeth's room, whereupon Lisbeth immediately contacts her information source, Plague, to see if he can find something on Teleborian, and then tells Mikael that Annika has permission to use a video of Nils Bjurman – her former guardian and one of the people she is accused of murdering – raping
her. Mikael compels a civil servant, Bang Janeryd, to reveal that Gullberg and Rotting[?] had visited the Prime Minister years ago to urge a cover-up of the Zalachenko affair.
Lisbeth starts working on an autobiography
to document her actions and motives from childhood to the present. She continues to have nightmares of memories about her time at St. Stephen's, her father and half-brother, and of her rape by Bjurman. Mikael continues to pursue Teleborian, with Christer's[?] help. They also follow a Section member to a flat that Fredrik Clinton had been to four hours before. Lisbeth finishes her autobiography and sends it to Mikael, and Jonasson informs Lisbeth she cannot remain at the hospital but must be transferred to prison in a couple of days. He is surprised that she is not worried about the trial.
The strongman Niedermann (Micke Spreitz), who previously tried to kill Lisbeth's best friend, has remained a fugitive, wanted for killing a police officer. Sonny, of the motorcycle gang from the previous film, is informed that he was searched, but found clean, and that his friend had sent Niedermann to hide out in his home. There, he finds his brother dead and his girlfriend tied, gagged, and apparently assaulted. She tells him that Niedermann was the culprit, and Sonny vows revenge. Fredrik Clinton, in dialysis
, is given a copy of Lisbeth's autobiography, and is told that none of it can be proven. Meanwhile, Erika, who has left her job at Millennium to take over as editor of a large daily newspaper, has been receiving anonymous, violently obscene hate mail
, which causes an uproar in the office. In prison, Lisbeth is interrogated by the prosecutor but says nothing. Annika is later given Lisbeth's computer and the DVD, which she watches. Niedermann breaks into an abandoned warehouse and kills a witness, a random cyclist. Teleborian finally meets with Lisbeth, who again remains silent.
Erika's bedroom window has been smashed, and in desperation she has called Milton Security. Mikael learns that someone has just broken into his apartment and planted cocaine and cash there. He concludes that they are trying to frame him, since they cannot hurt the magazine. Mikael decides to meet Erika at a restaurant named "Samir's Gryta." The police try to warn Mikael of an attempt to kill them there, and Mikael fends off the assault as the police hurry toward the restaurant. The Section is dismayed to find their hired hit men have failed.
On the day of her murder trial, Lisbeth enters court with piercings, a mohawk hairstyle
, black makeup, and dark clothing. Called as an expert witness for the prosecution, Teleborian characterizes Lisbeth's autobiography as merely the product of her paranoid delusions. Annika gradually demolishes Teleborian's credibility, using Lisbeth's words and files from the hospital. She shows the video proving Bjurman raped Lisbeth, demonstrating that her statements were completely true.
As Annika presents her case, the police arrest the people involved with the Section and seize their place of operation. Called to the stand, Mikael shows that Teleborian had written his psychiatric opinions before he had even been allowed to interview Lisbeth. Then Annika calls Edklinth to the stand, and he states that the opinions were formulated in cooperation with Jonas Sandberg, using his computer as proof. Teleborian is left speechless. Edklinth tells Teleborian he is to be arrested on charges of possessing over 8,000 items of child pornography (which Plague had discovered after hacking his laptop), and his computer is seized as evidence. After Teleborian is arrested, the court rules that there is no further need for Lisbeth to be detained in custody.
The Millennium workers celebrate their victory, as Erika leaves the newspaper job and returns as editor in chief. Lisbeth is encouraged by Annika to check the property she has inherited from Zala and discovers the warehouse where Niedermann was hiding. Niedermann attempts to trap her in the warehouse and kill her, but she is too fast for him. She uses a nail gun to nail Niedermann's feet to the floor. She considers nailing him in the head but instead phones Sonny and tells the bikers where to find him. Then she calls the police after the bikers arrive.
Lisbeth returns home, Mikael briefly visits her to tell her that the motorcycle gang killed Niedermann and were arrested soon after. They have a brief conversation that might or might not be a prelude to a further relationship.
, Norway
, and Denmark
on 29 November 2009, and in Finland
and Iceland
in January 2010. The film was subsequently released in other European countries throughout the spring and summer of 2010. The film opened the Scottsdale
(Arizona) International Film Festival on 1 October 2010, and was screened on 13 October 2010 at the Mill Valley (California) Film Festival
; the film then had a limited release in United States and Canadian
theaters beginning 29 October 2010.
gave the film a score of 52% based on 112 reviews, with an average score of 5.8/10, the consensus being, "Slow and mostly devoid of the stellar chemistry between its two leads, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest is a disappointingly uneven conclusion to the Millennium trilogy.".
and Blu-ray
were released in Scandinavia on 12 March 2010, and the U.S. releases are expected for release 25 January 2011. The extended miniseries Millennium
version was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Scandinavia on 30 July 2010.
Daniel Alfredson
Hans Daniel Björn Alfredson is a Swedish film director who is best known for directing film versions of two parts of the Millennium Trilogy: The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest...
. It is based on the bestselling novel of the same name
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest is the third and final novel in the best-selling "Millennium series"by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.The novel is the sequel to The Girl Who Played with Fire....
by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson
Stieg Larsson
Karl Stig-Erland Larsson , who wrote professionally as Stieg Larsson, was a Swedish journalist and writer, born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå. He is best known for writing the "Millennium series" of crime novels, which were published posthumously...
, the third and final entry in his "Millennium series". More were to follow, but because Larsson died suddenly, were never completed. The movie is also the last film for veteran actor Per Oscarsson
Per Oscarsson
- External links :...
, who died in a house fire on December 31, 2010.
Lisbeth Salander
Lisbeth Salander
Lisbeth Salander is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. She is the heroine of Larsson's award-winning "Millennium series", first appearing in the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
is hospitalized after the meeting with her father, and later put on trial. Mikael Blomkvist
Mikael Blomkvist
Mikael Blomkvist is a fictional character created by writer Stieg Larsson who appears as a main character in the Millennium series along with Lisbeth Salander.-Name:...
takes on the task of proving she is innocent as he continues to uncover the reasons why Lisbeth has been treated so harshly by the Swedish authorities.
Plot
The film begins where the previous entry, The Girl Who Played with FireThe Girl Who Played with Fire (film)
The Girl Who Played with Fire is a 2009 Swedish thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson, and the sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, the second in his "Millennium series".The...
, left off. Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace
Noomi Rapace
Noomi Rapace is a Swedish actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish/Danish film adaptations of the "Millennium series": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest...
) is airlifted to a hospital in Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
. Surgeons remove bullets from her shoulder, hip and head, bullets fired by her father, Alexander Zalachenko (Zala). She is cared for by Dr. Jonasson (Aksel Morisse), who prevents anyone except her lawyer from visiting.
At the same time Evert Gullberg (Hans Alfredson
Hans Alfredson
Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson is a Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson...
) and Fredrik Clinton (Lennart Hjulström
Lennart Hjulström
Lennart Hjalmar Hjulström is a Swedish actor and director. He is married to Gunilla Nyroos and father to Niklas and Carin Hjulström...
), old colleagues from the "Section," a group within the Swedish Security Service
Swedish Security Service
The Swedish Security Service , former name Rikspolisstyrelsens säkerhetsavdelning , is the security service of Sweden, belonging to the Swedish National Police Board....
, reconnect and decide that they must silence Zalachenko and Lisbeth to preserve cold war secrets. Zalachenko (Georgi Staykov
Georgi Staykov
Georgi Staykov is a Bulgarian-Swedish actor.In Swedish cinema, he typically portrays Eastern European villains. "My Serbian friends refer to me as 'the main bad guy,'" he said in a 2007 interview. "I've played this role for all possible languages which has these 'bad guys' - Russian mafia,...
) is still alive, in a hospital room down the hall from Lisbeth.
Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist
Michael Nyqvist
Rolf Åke Michael Nyqvist is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known from his role as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck movies made in 1997. He is recently most recognized for his role in the internationally acclaimed Millennium series as...
) asks his sister, Annika (Annika Hallin), to be Lisbeth's lawyer in her up-coming murder trial. Gullberg arrives at the hospital at the same time as Annika, proceeds to Zalachenko's room, and shoots him dead. Annika saves Lisbeth by barricading the door to Lisbeth's room, preventing Gullberg from killing her too. Gullberg then shoots himself. Clinton visits psychiatrist Dr. Peter Teleborian (Anders Ahlbom), and explains his plan to silence Lisbeth by having her committed to St. Stephen's mental hospital again. Teleborian tries to meet with Lisbeth to conduct a psychological evaluation but is prevented by Dr. Jonasson.
Mikael Blomkvist persuades Dr. Jonasson to sneak an internet phone into Lisbeth's room, whereupon Lisbeth immediately contacts her information source, Plague, to see if he can find something on Teleborian, and then tells Mikael that Annika has permission to use a video of Nils Bjurman – her former guardian and one of the people she is accused of murdering – raping
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...
her. Mikael compels a civil servant, Bang Janeryd, to reveal that Gullberg and Rotting[?] had visited the Prime Minister years ago to urge a cover-up of the Zalachenko affair.
Lisbeth starts working on an autobiography
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
to document her actions and motives from childhood to the present. She continues to have nightmares of memories about her time at St. Stephen's, her father and half-brother, and of her rape by Bjurman. Mikael continues to pursue Teleborian, with Christer's[?] help. They also follow a Section member to a flat that Fredrik Clinton had been to four hours before. Lisbeth finishes her autobiography and sends it to Mikael, and Jonasson informs Lisbeth she cannot remain at the hospital but must be transferred to prison in a couple of days. He is surprised that she is not worried about the trial.
The strongman Niedermann (Micke Spreitz), who previously tried to kill Lisbeth's best friend, has remained a fugitive, wanted for killing a police officer. Sonny, of the motorcycle gang from the previous film, is informed that he was searched, but found clean, and that his friend had sent Niedermann to hide out in his home. There, he finds his brother dead and his girlfriend tied, gagged, and apparently assaulted. She tells him that Niedermann was the culprit, and Sonny vows revenge. Fredrik Clinton, in dialysis
Dialysis
In medicine, dialysis is a process for removing waste and excess water from the blood, and is primarily used to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function in people with renal failure...
, is given a copy of Lisbeth's autobiography, and is told that none of it can be proven. Meanwhile, Erika, who has left her job at Millennium to take over as editor of a large daily newspaper, has been receiving anonymous, violently obscene hate mail
Hate mail
Hate mail is a form of harassment, usually consisting of invective and potentially intimidating or threatening comments towards the recipient...
, which causes an uproar in the office. In prison, Lisbeth is interrogated by the prosecutor but says nothing. Annika is later given Lisbeth's computer and the DVD, which she watches. Niedermann breaks into an abandoned warehouse and kills a witness, a random cyclist. Teleborian finally meets with Lisbeth, who again remains silent.
Erika's bedroom window has been smashed, and in desperation she has called Milton Security. Mikael learns that someone has just broken into his apartment and planted cocaine and cash there. He concludes that they are trying to frame him, since they cannot hurt the magazine. Mikael decides to meet Erika at a restaurant named "Samir's Gryta." The police try to warn Mikael of an attempt to kill them there, and Mikael fends off the assault as the police hurry toward the restaurant. The Section is dismayed to find their hired hit men have failed.
On the day of her murder trial, Lisbeth enters court with piercings, a mohawk hairstyle
Mohawk hairstyle
The mohawk is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair...
, black makeup, and dark clothing. Called as an expert witness for the prosecution, Teleborian characterizes Lisbeth's autobiography as merely the product of her paranoid delusions. Annika gradually demolishes Teleborian's credibility, using Lisbeth's words and files from the hospital. She shows the video proving Bjurman raped Lisbeth, demonstrating that her statements were completely true.
As Annika presents her case, the police arrest the people involved with the Section and seize their place of operation. Called to the stand, Mikael shows that Teleborian had written his psychiatric opinions before he had even been allowed to interview Lisbeth. Then Annika calls Edklinth to the stand, and he states that the opinions were formulated in cooperation with Jonas Sandberg, using his computer as proof. Teleborian is left speechless. Edklinth tells Teleborian he is to be arrested on charges of possessing over 8,000 items of child pornography (which Plague had discovered after hacking his laptop), and his computer is seized as evidence. After Teleborian is arrested, the court rules that there is no further need for Lisbeth to be detained in custody.
The Millennium workers celebrate their victory, as Erika leaves the newspaper job and returns as editor in chief. Lisbeth is encouraged by Annika to check the property she has inherited from Zala and discovers the warehouse where Niedermann was hiding. Niedermann attempts to trap her in the warehouse and kill her, but she is too fast for him. She uses a nail gun to nail Niedermann's feet to the floor. She considers nailing him in the head but instead phones Sonny and tells the bikers where to find him. Then she calls the police after the bikers arrive.
Lisbeth returns home, Mikael briefly visits her to tell her that the motorcycle gang killed Niedermann and were arrested soon after. They have a brief conversation that might or might not be a prelude to a further relationship.
Cast
- Noomi RapaceNoomi RapaceNoomi Rapace is a Swedish actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish/Danish film adaptations of the "Millennium series": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest...
as Lisbeth SalanderLisbeth SalanderLisbeth Salander is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. She is the heroine of Larsson's award-winning "Millennium series", first appearing in the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... - Michael NyqvistMichael NyqvistRolf Åke Michael Nyqvist is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known from his role as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck movies made in 1997. He is recently most recognized for his role in the internationally acclaimed Millennium series as...
as Mikael BlomkvistMikael BlomkvistMikael Blomkvist is a fictional character created by writer Stieg Larsson who appears as a main character in the Millennium series along with Lisbeth Salander.-Name:... - Tehilla BladTehilla BladTehilla Blad is a Swedish actress best known for playing the young Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish Millennium films.-Biography:...
as young Lisbeth Salander - Lena EndreLena EndreLena Endre is a Swedish actress. She was born in Lidingö, Stockholm County, and grew up in Härnösand, Ångermanland and Trollbäcken, Tyresö. She had her breakthrough in the Swedish TV-series Varuhuset and Lorry in the 1980s. Since then she has acted in a number of TV-series and movies, both in...
as Erika Berger – editor of Millennium - Annika Hallin as Annika Giannini – a lawyer and sister of Mikael Blomkvist
- Sofia Ledarp as Malin Eriksson
- Jacob Ericksson as Christer Malm – photographer of Millennium
- Georgi StaykovGeorgi StaykovGeorgi Staykov is a Bulgarian-Swedish actor.In Swedish cinema, he typically portrays Eastern European villains. "My Serbian friends refer to me as 'the main bad guy,'" he said in a 2007 interview. "I've played this role for all possible languages which has these 'bad guys' - Russian mafia,...
as Alexander Zalachenko "Zala" - Aksel Morisse as Dr. Jonasson
- Niklas HjulströmNiklas HjulströmNiklas Hjulström is a Swedish actor, singer and director. He is brother to Carin Hjulström, grandson to Filip Hjulström and son to Lennart Hjulström. Niklas Hjulström is father to Embla Hjulström....
as Prosecutor Ekström - Micke Spreitz as Ronald Niedermann
- Anders Ahlbom as Dr. Peter Teleborian
- Hans AlfredsonHans AlfredsonHans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson is a Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson...
as Evert Gullberg – former head of "The Section" - Lennart HjulströmLennart HjulströmLennart Hjalmar Hjulström is a Swedish actor and director. He is married to Gunilla Nyroos and father to Niklas and Carin Hjulström...
as Fredrik Clinton – former head of "The Section" after Gullberg - Per OscarssonPer Oscarsson- External links :...
as Holger Palmgren - Michalis Koutsogiannakis as Dragan
- Mirja Turestedt as Monica Figuerola
- Johan Kylén as Police Inspector Jan Bublanski
Release
The film was released in SwedenSweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, and Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
on 29 November 2009, and in Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
and Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
in January 2010. The film was subsequently released in other European countries throughout the spring and summer of 2010. The film opened the Scottsdale
Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2010 the population of the city was 217,385...
(Arizona) International Film Festival on 1 October 2010, and was screened on 13 October 2010 at the Mill Valley (California) Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival is an annual, non-competitive film festival presented by the California Film Institute. Known as a filmmakers’ festival, the annual Mill Valley Film Festival offers a non-competitive environment for exhibiting independent and world cinema.Founded in 1978 by MVFF...
; the film then had a limited release in United States and Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
theaters beginning 29 October 2010.
Reception
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
gave the film a score of 52% based on 112 reviews, with an average score of 5.8/10, the consensus being, "Slow and mostly devoid of the stellar chemistry between its two leads, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest is a disappointingly uneven conclusion to the Millennium trilogy.".
Home media
The DVDDVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
and Blu-ray
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...
were released in Scandinavia on 12 March 2010, and the U.S. releases are expected for release 25 January 2011. The extended miniseries Millennium
Millennium (Swedish miniseries)
Millennium is a Swedish six-part television series that aired in 2010, which was based on the film trilogy of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. The series was produced by Yellow Bird in cooperation with several production companies, including SVT, Nordisk Film and Film i Väst. Unlike the films,...
version was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Scandinavia on 30 July 2010.
See also
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (film)The Girl Who Played with Fire (film)The Girl Who Played with Fire is a 2009 Swedish thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson, and the sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, the second in his "Millennium series".The...
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an upcoming English-language drama thriller film that is the second film based on the Swedish novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. The first film was the 2009 Swedish-language adaptation. The upcoming film is written by Steven Zaillian and directed by David...