The arrival of David Fincher's English-language version of Stieg Larsson's Scandinavian publishing phenomenon was greeted with as much shoulder-shrugging as anticipation.
Even in a landscape filled with the strip-mining of same-old source material (New Star Trek! New Superman! New Spider-Man, only five years after the last one!), why would one of Hollywood's brainiest auteurs accept the task of remaking a much admired local adaptation?
