Sweden chills, thrills 'Dragon Tattoo' director

USA Today Thursday 24th November, 2011

Put him in the middle of the Swedish countryside, though, and the chills aren't just from Nordic winds. "That is a different kind of world," says the director of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, out Dec. 21. PHOTOS: David Fincher on making 'Dragon Tattoo'"When the sun goes down at 2 in the afternoon, and the winds whip up and it's 30-below, you realize these people are made of heartier stuff," Fincher says from his Hollywood offices, where he is wrapping up editing the film. "And you think, 'My God, how do you survive this?' "It's a question Fincher says he asked himself often while poring over the 2005 Stieg Larsson crime novel, which serves as the taproot for Fincher's thriller starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig.

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