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Leaked 'Girl With Dragon Tattoo' Contains Asskicking, Apple Product Placement

Posted by Abe Sauer on May 31, 2011 01:00 PM

The movie news of Memorial Day weekend wasn't the record-breaking box office receipts thanks to Hangover 2's wild performance.

No, it's the leaked NSFW red band trailer for the big budget Hollywood adaptation of the Millennium Trilogy, starting with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Billed as the "feel bad movie of Christmas," the trailer stops on the audience's neck and never lets up. Naturally, fans of the novel (and Daniel Craig) are going wild about it.

But does it answer our long-simmering question about whether or not director David Fincher would cave to the film's producer, Sony Pictures, and replace the numerous Apple MacBooks from the novels with Sony Vaios? Yes, yes it does.

It's a brief passing second of shaky footage, but this is almost absolutely a backlit MacBook keyboard:

The original European adaptation of the books was loaded with Apple products. And while it's unknown if Fincher will follow suit, it seems Sony is doing the right thing regarding fealty to the original material.

Comments

Paul Burke Spain says:

There are rumors that the trailer was 'leaked' on purpose by the film's distributors. People are talking about the fact that it maintains focus, the sound, etc. If that's the case, then kudos to Columbia Pictures for some crafty marketing.

June 1, 2011 08:13 AM #

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