What Does Bond Do Now?

After bond got bumped, our next instalment of Daniel Craig will be in the form of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In had been widely roumered that Brad Pitt was waiting on Steve Zaillian’s first script draft, which was turned in on June 1. The belief was that Pitt was going to make a decision about starring in the film after reading the script. But now Daniel Craig is in early talks to star as journalist Mikael Blomkvist in this film and two more, the latter possibly shot back to back, adapting the full span of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.

Meanwhile, pretty much every ambitious young actress in Hollywood has been on a wish list for the lead female role, Lisbeth Salander. Carey Mulligan has been loosely linked to it, and then Ellen Page, Mia Wasikowska, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Olivia Thirlby, and many more names have been thrown around as well. But there was a report that Fincher wanted an unknown; which is always the best choice in my opinion.

So are we lead to believe that Brad Pitt didn’t love the script? Or is it he tied up with a series of three films? In any case Craig is a much better fit for the part, in my opinion, so this is good news. And with Bond 23 on hold, once he is all done with Cowboys & Aliens, Craig will probably be happy to have such a high profile film as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to keep him busy until Bond can get back on track (if it can).