To celebrate the UK DVD and Blu-ray release on The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest on April 11th we managed yet again to get some interview time with the cast and crew of the film. This time round it’s the turn of Costume Designer Cilla Rorby.
1) How was it working with Daniel Alfredson and Jonas Frykberg? Obviously costume is incredibly important for Lisbeth, how does it evolve in 3 films?
Daniel is a nice and calm man. We were not so many in the team who made all 3 films.
I made costumes for all three films and the first one is the one that “set the style”. I had all three in my head to be able to do the first, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was important for me to know the whole story even if I only had the script for the first one for a long time.
1) How was it working with Daniel Alfredson and Jonas Frykberg? Obviously costume is incredibly important for Lisbeth, how does it evolve in 3 films?
Daniel is a nice and calm man. We were not so many in the team who made all 3 films.
I made costumes for all three films and the first one is the one that “set the style”. I had all three in my head to be able to do the first, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was important for me to know the whole story even if I only had the script for the first one for a long time.
- 3/17/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
To celebrate the UK DVD and Blu-ray release on The Girl Who Played With Fire on January 10th we managed to get some interview time with the cast and crew of the film. First up, casting director Tusse Lande.
How was it working with Daniel Alfredson and Jonas Frykberg?
Daniel Alfredson and I have been friends since we did a feature all the way back in 2000 – he is great director with big knowledge on actors! He knows what he wants and that makes it really easy to communicate what exactly he is after – it’s a pleasure to work with people who have a clear vision from the start.
Although I know him well, and we get on, I’ve never had to deal with any of the writers like Jonas as our roles don’t require us to come together.
How did you know that Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace...
How was it working with Daniel Alfredson and Jonas Frykberg?
Daniel Alfredson and I have been friends since we did a feature all the way back in 2000 – he is great director with big knowledge on actors! He knows what he wants and that makes it really easy to communicate what exactly he is after – it’s a pleasure to work with people who have a clear vision from the start.
Although I know him well, and we get on, I’ve never had to deal with any of the writers like Jonas as our roles don’t require us to come together.
How did you know that Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace...
- 1/7/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Chicago – One of the biggest pop culture stories of 2010 has to be the various incarnations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. As millions read the books on their way back and forth to work and David Fincher prepares to turn them into star-making vehicles for Rooney Mara, the foreign-language film versions of the books have been released in theaters and the middle story, “The Girl Who Played With Fire,” was recently released on Blu-ray and DVD.
DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0
With “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” just released in theaters, the Swedish trilogy is complete. Catch up with the first two movies, both now available on the home market, to see why they’ve become so big. It’s obvious. They have just the right blend of labyrinthine conspiracy and straight-up action to deliver for international audiences. They can play to both the intellectual crowd interested in a journalist...
DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0
With “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” just released in theaters, the Swedish trilogy is complete. Catch up with the first two movies, both now available on the home market, to see why they’ve become so big. It’s obvious. They have just the right blend of labyrinthine conspiracy and straight-up action to deliver for international audiences. They can play to both the intellectual crowd interested in a journalist...
- 11/10/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Reviewer:James van Maanen
Rating (out of 5): ***
You want more of hacker Lisbeth Salander? Judging by the USA box-office take from the first film in this continuing series -- approaching $12 million, making it by far the most successful foreign-language film of the year -- you do, even if it, too, lacks a certain something.
The Girl Who Played With Fire, number two in the trilogy of adaptations based on Stieg Larrson's best-selling books, has a different director from that of its predecessor, and the difference, while immediately apparent, is not necessarily for the worse. Fire director Daniel Alfredson has worked more in Swedish television (and the screenplay this time is by Swedish TV writer Jonas Frykberg), and this shows. Fire looks, sounds (except for the Swedish, of course) and feels like something that you might stumble upon while surfing cable television and -- if that stumble occurred at the show's...
Rating (out of 5): ***
You want more of hacker Lisbeth Salander? Judging by the USA box-office take from the first film in this continuing series -- approaching $12 million, making it by far the most successful foreign-language film of the year -- you do, even if it, too, lacks a certain something.
The Girl Who Played With Fire, number two in the trilogy of adaptations based on Stieg Larrson's best-selling books, has a different director from that of its predecessor, and the difference, while immediately apparent, is not necessarily for the worse. Fire director Daniel Alfredson has worked more in Swedish television (and the screenplay this time is by Swedish TV writer Jonas Frykberg), and this shows. Fire looks, sounds (except for the Swedish, of course) and feels like something that you might stumble upon while surfing cable television and -- if that stumble occurred at the show's...
- 11/3/2010
- by underdog
- GreenCine
Chicago – Now that the third and final installment of Stieg Larsson’s posthumously published, phenomenally popular book series has been turned into a feature film, the questions emerges: ‘Was it worth it?’ To the worldwide box office and the creatively bankrupt Hollywood, of course it was. But were moviegoers truly satisfied by the experience?
Rating: 3.0/5.0
I wasn’t, but that’s not to say I didn’t admire aspects of the pictures, particularly the mesmerizing, star-making performance from Noomi Rapace as the titular “Girl.” Her magnetic presence elevates each film whenever she’s onscreen, which is not nearly long enough. After the enticing first tale, “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” developed the relationship between two fascinating characters who teamed up to solve crimes, the next two installments frustrate on multiple levels. The characters that audiences loved to see work together are kept apart the entire time at stagnant ends of an exposition-laden puzzle.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
I wasn’t, but that’s not to say I didn’t admire aspects of the pictures, particularly the mesmerizing, star-making performance from Noomi Rapace as the titular “Girl.” Her magnetic presence elevates each film whenever she’s onscreen, which is not nearly long enough. After the enticing first tale, “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” developed the relationship between two fascinating characters who teamed up to solve crimes, the next two installments frustrate on multiple levels. The characters that audiences loved to see work together are kept apart the entire time at stagnant ends of an exposition-laden puzzle.
- 10/29/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Does the second film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's source trilogy impress with its gritty realism, or does it scream TV movie?
The basics
Everyone's favourite psychologically scarred, battle-hardened punk hacker, Lisbeth Salander, returns to exact further vengeance on any misogynistic men who may happen to get in her way in the second film based on Stieg Larsson's hugely successful Millennium trilogy.
Back in Sweden after hot-footing it to the Caribbean with a swagbag of someone else's cash in the first film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, she immediately finds herself accused of three murders she didn't commit. Meanwhile, left-leaning investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is slowly unravelling a mystery which will reveal some startling facts about Salander's past.
The stakes
Though the first movie did spectacular box office in Sweden, and made a decent $58m (£47m) internationally, the Millennium films are yet to attain the dizzy heights of Larsson's source trilogy,...
The basics
Everyone's favourite psychologically scarred, battle-hardened punk hacker, Lisbeth Salander, returns to exact further vengeance on any misogynistic men who may happen to get in her way in the second film based on Stieg Larsson's hugely successful Millennium trilogy.
Back in Sweden after hot-footing it to the Caribbean with a swagbag of someone else's cash in the first film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, she immediately finds herself accused of three murders she didn't commit. Meanwhile, left-leaning investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is slowly unravelling a mystery which will reveal some startling facts about Salander's past.
The stakes
Though the first movie did spectacular box office in Sweden, and made a decent $58m (£47m) internationally, the Millennium films are yet to attain the dizzy heights of Larsson's source trilogy,...
- 8/24/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Yasmine Garbi | Written by Jonas Frykberg | Directed by Daniel Alfredson
The Girl Who Played with Fire is the first sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and while Hollywood still wrangles over casting for the remake of the first part of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, part 2 is about to hit UK cinemas.
Carrying on from where the first movie left off, Lisbeth Salander is in the Caribbean, with her fraudulently acquired riches, while Mikael Blomkvist is looking into a story about sex-trafficking. When Salander discovers that her corrupt guardian Nils Bjurman is planning to get the tattoo Salander gave him removed, she returns to Sweden to ensure this doesn’t happen. In doing so she accidentally gives him ammunition against her, and ends up framed for murders she didn’t commit.
If this all sounds overly complex,...
Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Yasmine Garbi | Written by Jonas Frykberg | Directed by Daniel Alfredson
The Girl Who Played with Fire is the first sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and while Hollywood still wrangles over casting for the remake of the first part of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, part 2 is about to hit UK cinemas.
Carrying on from where the first movie left off, Lisbeth Salander is in the Caribbean, with her fraudulently acquired riches, while Mikael Blomkvist is looking into a story about sex-trafficking. When Salander discovers that her corrupt guardian Nils Bjurman is planning to get the tattoo Salander gave him removed, she returns to Sweden to ensure this doesn’t happen. In doing so she accidentally gives him ammunition against her, and ends up framed for murders she didn’t commit.
If this all sounds overly complex,...
- 8/13/2010
- by Sarah
- Nerdly
Director: Daniel Alfredson Writers: Jonas Frykberg (screenplay), Stieg Larsson (novel) Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre The Girl Who Played With Fire is the second in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, a Swedish crime drama that picks up where The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo left off. Here we find Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) on a sabbatical of sorts, but quickly being sucked back into the criminal vortex of her past. Salander seems to easily find trouble, and soon is wanted for a triple murder. The excitement begins, with Salander and her old pal Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) again embroiled in a mystery that will force them to don their detective hats and find the killer. Much like the book, The Girl Who Played With Fire is a swirling, shifting network of characters that are continually introduced throughout the film. While this approach stayed true to Larsson’s vision, it...
- 7/16/2010
- by Dirk Sonniksen
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Chicago – Movie trilogies often are judged on the strength of their middle chapters. The “Star Wars” franchise wouldn’t have been continually embraced by new generations if “The Empire Strikes Back” hadn’t deepened the characters to such an extent that they became more than mere Jungian archetypes. If “Empire” jettisoned the franchise’s potential, “Attack of the Clones” brought it in for a crash landing.
“The Girl Who Played With Fire” is nowhere near the disaster of “Clones,” but considering the international appeal of its source material, the film is a definite letdown. It’s based on the second installment of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy,” which was published posthumously, and gained tremendous popularity with readers worldwide. Larsson was also a journalist with strong antifascist beliefs, and worked at a small publication not unlike the one in his book series. His crime dramas follow an investigative journalist,...
Chicago – Movie trilogies often are judged on the strength of their middle chapters. The “Star Wars” franchise wouldn’t have been continually embraced by new generations if “The Empire Strikes Back” hadn’t deepened the characters to such an extent that they became more than mere Jungian archetypes. If “Empire” jettisoned the franchise’s potential, “Attack of the Clones” brought it in for a crash landing.
“The Girl Who Played With Fire” is nowhere near the disaster of “Clones,” but considering the international appeal of its source material, the film is a definite letdown. It’s based on the second installment of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy,” which was published posthumously, and gained tremendous popularity with readers worldwide. Larsson was also a journalist with strong antifascist beliefs, and worked at a small publication not unlike the one in his book series. His crime dramas follow an investigative journalist,...
- 7/9/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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