Fincher + Reznor + Zeppelin = Awesome!

The hotly-anticipated US remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo helmed by the dark maestro himself, David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) got a world-wide trailer release officially last night, and strike us down if it’s not an attention grabbing piece of art all its own… not to mention a nice piece of viral marketing surrounding the ‘leaked’ trailer last week.

While the jury is out on whether the initial handy-cam post of the red-band trailer on YouTube last week (previewed prior to The Hangover II in US theaters) was intentional from the film studio, or indeed filmed by a guy with an amazing mic; either way Sony took the the red-band version down (some stills survive above) and officially posted the new one last night.

Fincher needn’t care, the work speaks for itself. Hot after his Oscar nomination for directing The Social Network (robbed!), the dark lord behind Zodiac flew into production on the English version of this first installment in the controversial Stieg Larsson trilogy (of note the original Swedish book title is Män som hatar kvinnor – “Men Who Hate Women”), and the feathers of purists were ruffled indeed.

Last year Sony co-chairman commented to The Wrap, “We’re doing the book. That’s why we hired David Fincher. We’re going to really do this, in all their glory. Otherwise why do it? They’re very R-rated movies. It’s the shock of what’s really going on underneath the surface of society. If you don’t actually make good on that, you haven’t told the story.”

Detailing the exploits of a disgraced financial journalist (Daniel Craig) and a revengeful hacker/private eye (Rooney Mara), we discover the corridors of power and privilege may lead to a basement of secrets most vile.

Fear not, die-hard fans, for if this brief glimpse into the mood and delivery of a tale most nasty is even a smidgen like this minute-and-a-half of tease, we’re in for a bleak Yuletide most grand. Plus, again scored by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and as demonstrated here covering Led Zeppelin with Karen O from The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, expect a little ‘Industrial Dark and Tragic’ to heighten and harden the visual blow.

AND. WE. CAN’T. WAIT.