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Best Adapted ScreenplaybySteven ZaillianBased on the bookbyStieg Larssonoriginally publishedbyNorstedts

THEGIRLWITHTHEDRAGON

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EXT. SWEDEN - DAY1A Christmas card vista is spoiled by a black line ofrailroad tracks stitched onto the snowy landscape like ascar pointing north to icy desolation. A phone rings -EXT. CABIN - ESTABLISHINGA2INT. CABIN - LAKE SILJAN - DAY2An elderly man who lives alone in this rustic cabin -a retired policeman - regards the phone, both expectingand dreading the call. He picks up the receiver.MORELLWhat kind is it?VANGER O/SI don’t know. White.MORELLAnd the frame?VANGER O/SDark.MORELLPostmark?VANGER O/SSame as last time.MORELLNo note.VANGER O/SNo.INT. VANGER’S STUDY - SAME TIME3Henrik Vanger - at 82, even older than Morell - listensto the silence from his end of the line in a wood-paneledroom as baronial as the policeman’s was spartan.VANGERI can’t take it anymore.MORELL O/SI know. I’m sorry, Henrik.There’s nothing more to say. Vanger sets the receiverdown and regards a dried white flower in a 6” x 11” frameresting on the brown paper it was wrapped and mailed in.It’s somehow ominous, like the dark storm clouds that nowburst outside -

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