“We did it the way that we could,” Fincher said.
“And I was like, ‘Lesbian hacker on a motorcycle?
I don’t think so.'”
Rooney Mara in ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’.Baldur Bragason/Columbia
The challenge of an adaptation piqued Fincher’s interest.
Making matters more expensive was Fincher’s determination to stay true to the Swedish origins of the novel.
“They said, ‘Well, can you shoot it in Atlanta?’
I was like, ‘Well, no.
I don’t know.’
We wanted it to be true to its essence.
You shoot in Sweden, you’re shooting for eight or nine-hour days, if you’re lucky.
And so the movie took 140 days to shoot.
I was proud of it.
I thought we did what we set out to do.”
“We’ve got something very simple to deliver on,” Fincher joked.
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