Sony Pictures has made no bones about its intention to adapt the entirety of the late Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy, starting with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.  That film is performing reasonably well in theaters right now, and the studio is continuing development on the first sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire, though it's unknown whether or not director David Fincher will return.  Given the obvious franchise intentions, it's no surprise that the opening title sequence for the first film visually incorporates moments from all three novels.

That title sequence strongly recalls some of Fincher's distinctive work as a director of both commercials and music videos, as well as (to a lesser extent) the titles to his 1995 thriller Se7en.  The titles feature a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" by composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, along with Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer Karen O, and its a testament hypnotic, at times assaultive style that the song doesn't simply overwhelm the visual presentation.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is now in theaters, and it's the first big, studio-backed American adaptation of an international bestseller by the late Stieg Larsson.  Naturally, Sony Pictures planned the film as the starting point for cinematic adaptations of all three novels in Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, but in the two weeks since The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo hit theaters, the film has, fairly or not, been carrying the faint whiff of  commercial disappointment.  Despite that perception, the studio intends to go ahead with The Girl Who Played With Fire and trilogy-capper The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

The last two films from director David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Social Network, both became heavy hitters during the always-ridiculous awards season (the latter moreso than the former).  Since that last film arguably represented a critical high water mark for the auteur behind Seven, Fight Club, and Zodiac, there are already some expectation that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo will have a similar presence, but today Fincher himself is sharing his thoughts on exactly why that isn't likely to be happening.  Not only that, but as a bonus, we have a couple of new images from the adaptation of the late Stieg Larsson's bestselling novel, one featuring Daniel Craig as the beleaguered journalist Mikael Blomkvist and two with Rooney Mara as the titular hacker and badass.

Every superhero blockbuster is accompanied by sundry toys, t-shirts, hoodies, and underpants bearing the recognizable symbol of that hero.  Lisbeth Salander, the title character in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, is doing Green Lantern and Spider-Man one better though, as she's inspired a new line of clothing from H&M to tie in with the new film adaptation from director David Fincher.  That's right, the clothing retailer known for its low-cost, fashionable offerings is the home to a bunch of clothes based on the style sported by Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, a borderline-autistic, brilliant hacker and survivor of rape and misogynistic abuse who crowd-pleasingly gains violent retribution against men who hate women.

Given the global popularity of the novel by Stieg Larsson, the marketing for the upcoming adaptation The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo could probably consist of some dudes wearing sandwich board signs saying "David Fincher made a new version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and the movie would probably still do really well.  Sony has not gone that route, however, and the marketing for this film has been appropriately stylish, unique, and generally just really cool.  Another new poster, for example, doesn't just put the standard floating heads above a title, but interestingly presents Rooney Mara's Lisbeth Salander and Daniel Craig's Mikael Blomkvist with an arresting graphic approach and the fairly ominous tagline, "What Was Hidden in the Snow Comes Forth in the Thaw."

Last week, we shared a gaggle of images showing Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in director David Fincher's take on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.  Those official stills demonstrate Fincher's unconventionally artful and exceedingly distinctive approach to selling the film, putting these two characters front and center in evocative, meticulously created visuals.  A new batch of pictures has arrived online today, and Craig appears in only one as journalist Mikael Blomkvist.  Instead, this set is focused on Mara as Lisbeth Salander, and rightly so.

While Blomkvist has plenty to do in the story, the American printing of Stieg Larsson's novel posited Salander as the title character for a reason.  She's the big draw, the character who makes the greatest impression, and the one on whose shoulders the whole endeavor lives or dies.  This new take on the novel could get a lot wrong, so long as it gets Lisbeth right.  Fincher, in his inimitable style, is going for broke with Lisbeth, and her look certainly makes a big impact, amply conveying the extent to which she does not give a shit what anybody thinks of her.

A few weeks back, Sony Pictures dropped a really cool extended trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo that showed off Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander and provided the basic set-up for the mystery being investigated by disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig).  If you wanted to watch that extra long trailer but just didn't have four minutes to spare, a new international trailer for the film is basically the same trailer sliced down to a more convenient two minutes flat.  Think of it as the fun-sized version, compared to the previous king-sized version.

But seriously, this is a solid trailer that does everything it needs to, quickly establishing both Blomkvist and Salander, as well as the case that brings them together.  More importantly, it contains lots of cool imagery of the caliber we've come to expect from director David Fincher and cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, and provides a sampling of the score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.