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As Spike Lee's take on Old Boy moves towards production, Twitch reports that Rooney Mara is being eyed for the female lead. A remake of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, the film focuses on a man named Joe (Dae-su Oh in the original) who is captured and imprisoned in a hotel room for over two decades (15 years in the original) with no understanding as to why. When he is suddenly released, he's told that he has just four days to determine the reason for his imprisonment.

Days after a handheld camera-shot tape of the first red band "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trailer was leaked (or planted) onto the web from a movie screening, Sony has officially released its first -- and approved for all ages green band -- preview for its David Fincher-helmed adaptation of the hit Stieg Larsson book.

While not directly from the film, W magazine (via JoBlo ) has published the first official photos of Rooney Mara (The Social Network) as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which Sony will open in theaters on December 21.

Although there are a lot of people who still are discovering or absolutely love the Swedish version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" doesn't mean Hollywood isn't going to stop anytime soon to go and remake the hell out of it. Columbia currently is in the middle of casting the Americanized version of the first novel for the Stieg Larsson. So far they've managed to wrangle up Rooney Mara, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård and Daniel Craig in the main cast with David Fincher directing, but now there's a new person in the fold.

Newcomer Rooney Mara has landed one of the most-coveted roles in Hollywood, co-starring alongside James Bond star Daniel Craig in the English-language ...