Warner Brothers has won the bidding war for the rights to produce a remake of “Snabba Cash”, the Swedish thriller based on Jens Lapidus’ book with the same title. According to the same source, Zac Efron is attached to star the remake. I personally have nothing against him, but I am against Hollywood remakes. Lets hope somebody buys the rights to the movie as is, and manages to show it before Hollywood gets around to making the remake and destroys the movie!
That’s fortunately what has happened to the original three Swedish movies based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. Music Box Films bought the rights, is currently showing the first movie around the US, and will soon release it on DVD as well. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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I’m Portuguese and I’ve watched the 3 Swedish films based on Stieg’s work (and read the books as well). I can tell you that, in my opinion, the books are very, very good (loved them!) but the films are very boring, in general not very well acted and the roles are badly cast (Noomi Rapace is great, though).
The Swedish language is not at all attractive to me (I don’t like the sound of it) and it just makes me fall asleep. So, yes, I do welcome another version of these films, preferably in English and with more attractive actors. The Blomqvist actor is very badly cast, in the book the guy has women falling for him all the time while, in the movie, the guy is not at all attractive (I’m an hetero male but I’ve asked my wife and she confirmed my suspicions).
So, just to tell you that not everybody is against Hollywood adaptations of Stieg’s works.