Niels Arden Oplev Articles

Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo "The only thing that's annoying to me is that the Sony PR machine is trying to make their Lisbeth Salander the lead Lisbeth Salander," The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev complained to Word & Film about David Fincher's American remake (set in Sweden) of Oplev's worldwide blockbuster. "That's highly unfair because Noomi [Rapace] [...]

Carey Mulligan An Education (top); Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (bottom) Carey Mulligan, not Kristen Stewart, Natalie Portman, or Keira Knightley, is now rumored to star in David Fincher's Hollywood version of Niels Arden Oplev's Swedish blockbuster The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (in the original, Men Who Hate Women). Mulligan, a near-total unknown until late last year, [...]

Ben Stiller, Jennifer Jason Leigh in Noah Baumbach's Greenberg (top); Amanda Seyfried, Julianne Moore in Atom Egoyan's Chloe (upper middle); Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist in Niels Arden Oplev's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (lower middle); Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart in Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways (bottom) Among the movies in limited release, those screening in less than 500 venues, the Noah Baumbach-Ben Stiller comedy Greenberg [...]

Based on Stieg Larsson's bestseller, Niels Arden Oplev's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has become an international box-office sensation. The dark thriller-horror mystery stars European Film Award nominee Noomi Rapace as a computer hacker who helps a journalist (Michael Nyqvist) in his attempt to solve the decades-old disappearance of a young Swedish heiress. David Fincher will supposedly handle the inevitable American remake. Natalie Portman, [...]