David Fincher's 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Trailer Hits The Web (Video)

No one's sure how it got there taking credit yet, but the red-band trailer for David Fincher's highly anticipated adaptation of the hit Stieg Larsson novel, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," has surfaced on the web.

And it's gaining momentum. Fast.

From the slice of story we see here, it looks like Fincher's using a hard-edged approach to capture this dramatic thriller, which stars Rooney Mara as the hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander and Daniel Craig as the journalist-gone-rogue Mikael Blomkvist.

The trailer cuts quickly from snowy roads, to racing motorcycles, to bloody showers, as well as everything (and we mean everything) in between. In fact, it even brands itself as "The feel bad movie of Christmas." Move over Mark Zuckerberg, because there's a new computer genius in town, and she's not interested in making any friends.

Of course, the excitement of the trailer itself is mirrored only by the mystery of how this clip even landed on the web. Supposedly, it was recorded (illegally, mind you) in a European movie theater, but, as The Hollywood Reporter points out, the quality is unusually good for such a video and there are no sounds of other theatergoers. Odd.

Even more eyebrow-raising is the mere fact that the videos haven't been pulled from the web. Yet. Stay tuned. It would certainly be appropriate if Sony were going a viral route to launch their campaign for this flick.

Check out the sneak peek for yourself (while you can) and see if you think you can hang with Fincher's new crew.

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" hits theaters Dec. 21.

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The lure of the 'Dragon Tattoo'

Fans of the late crime novelist Stieg Larsson are getting lost in the Swedish countryside, searching for the quaint town of Hedestad featured in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

The problem is, it doesn't exist.

But international readers of Larsson's best-selling Millennium crime trilogy could be excused for thinking otherwise, because most locations in the books are authentic.

Some of them include the Kaffebar cafe in Stockholm - a favorite haunt of Larsson's fictional journalist Mikael Blomkvist - and the Kvarnen bar - where Larsson has tattooed computer hacker Lisbeth Salander spending evenings with her friends from the rock band Evil Fingers.
Both places are located on the trendy island of Sodermalm, a former working-class area with narrow streets where old wooden cottages are squeezed between 20th century stone houses.
The hilly Stockholm district - with popular bars, fashion stores and art galleries - is one of many islands that form the city center and the home of Larsson's characters.

Blomkvist and Salander, the trilogy's main characters, both have apartments there. Salander's friendly first legal guardian, Holger Palmgren, also lived there before he was hospitalized.

Eager Millennium fans can venture out on their own, visiting the scenes of Blomkvist's and Salander's exploits with maps sold by the tourist office. Or they can take the Stockholm City Museum's Larsson tour.

Starting with Blomkvist's small apartment in the brown 19th century building at 1 Bellmansgatan, Millennium fans can relive the books' plots in the real settings, while listening to the guide's detailed descriptions.

"It is great to identify the addresses and see what the buildings look like," said Roland Ojeda, a retired banker from San Francisco, who took the tour in June with his wife, Linda. "I think it brings it to life."

Larsson's books about a darker side of Sweden, where Blomkvist and Salander become involved in murder mysteries, sex trafficking scandals and a secret government department, have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The tour has attracted visitors from as far away as Japan, Canada and Australia, said Eva Palmqvist, who leads the museum's tour.

Best Style Dragon Tattoo

This my best friend's tattoo as a work in progress. After three hours of tattooing she couldn't take it anymore, so she'll get it finished once this part heals up.

Actually my tattoo isn't finished either. I have kanj to add to the cherry blossoms. We got these done on the same day together by the same artist (we have three tattoos from the same artists...we do everything together).

this is actually a cover up of a poorly aged tattoo (you can't even see it anymore, it's under the wing).

3D Dragon tattoo on back