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Forget the sweet schoolgirl who gossips with her girlfriends and dreams of great romance in gay “Par-ee.” Recent Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan is heading for the body art. The Times Online reports that the* An Education* star is “set” to headline the English remake of the Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (They say she won a thumbs up from director David Fincher, but the final decision/agreement has not been made.)
Mulligan has been itching to grab the role for a while now, saying last month: “I am obsessed with those books. I would love to do them. I am not going to lie about that. I would love to play Lisbeth Salander.” The Times notes that she not only won the thumbs up from Fincher, but also the family of the late author who penned the series, Stieg Larsson. Should she sign on the dotted line, she’s said to earn approximately £10m for three films, playing a body-modded computer hacker who helps a journalist solve a decades-old disappearance. (The locale might be moved to Canada, seen as a sort of “compromise” for American audiences.) *
While I was intrigued by Peter's idea of [a rougher Veronica Mars](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/12/18/sony-options-english-language-rights-to-girl-with-the-dragon-ta/) on the big screen, I'm itching to see how Mulligan balances darker fare with the sweet. If she hits this out of the ballpark like she did *An Education*, I imagine she'll be unstoppable.
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