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Columbia Pictures 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' casting highly featured extras

Rooney Mara Lisbeth Salander Dragon Tattoo

Filming on "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" began in Stockholm, Sweden in September 2010.
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Filming is currently taking place in Los Angeles on the Columbia Pictures feature film "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". The extras casting director is currently casting several very featured background artist roles, including Swedish, Spanish, and European looking types. Also sought is a very good long haired guitar player. This is for Los Angeles area talent only, no exceptions.

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is a thriller film that is the second film based on the Swedish novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. The first film was the 2009 Swedish-language adaptation. Two-time Academy Award nominated David Fincher is directing from an adapted screenplay written by Academy Award winning writer Steven Zaillian.

If it performs well, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" will in all likelyhood be the first film in a trilogy with the next two films titled "The Girl Who Played with Fire," and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest". Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara both have options in their contracts to reprise their roles in the next two films.

Steven Zaillian is executive producer for Film Rights, Mikael Wallen and Anni Faurbye Fernandez will executive produce for Yellow Bird Films, and Relativity Media Founder and CEO Ryan Kavanaugh will co-executive produce. Søren Stærmose, who produced the 2009 Swedish version of the film, will produce "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" along with Academy Award winning producer Scott Rudin and Yellow Bird Film's Ole Søndberg.

Here is what the Los Angeles extras casting director is seeking:

• Males and Females, 18-60 years of age, Swedish looking, blonde or dark haired, blue eyes. Highly featured extras.

• Males, Age 25-40 years of age, To play Swedish police, blonde or dark hair, blue eyes. Highly featured extras.

• Males and Females, 18-80 years of age, To play Spanish and European onlookers, light-skinned, upscale, artsy types. Highly featured extras.

• Males, Age 25-40 years of age, To play Spanish and European police, light-skinned. Highly featured extras.

• Male or female, 18-28 years of age. MUST be a very good guitar player w/long hair or dreadlocks. Highly featured extra.

• Works starting Wednesday, August 31, 2011

To be considered, you MUST be located in the Los Angeles area. Registration is at the following location Mondays through Fridays from 11:00am to 3:00pm:

Sande Alessi Casting
13731 Ventura Blvd.
Top Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Registration Info Line - (818) 623-7040

ABSOLUTELY NO PHONE CALLS! Register ASAP.

Please read the following before working as a background artist:

Film and Television Extras Guidelines

Principal Actor Casting

See the post titled Headshot and Resume Information regarding how to submit for acting roles.

Please submit photos and resumes by mail only.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.

Los Angeles:

Laray Mayfield
5620 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Extras Casting

Los Angeles:

Kristan Berona
Sande Alesai Casting
13731 Ventura Blvd.
Top Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91316

Production Companies:

Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies, as they will most likely end up being thrown away. They do not cast the films, rather they hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions.

Columbia Pictures
10202 W Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

Scott Rudin Productions
120 W 45th Street
10th Floor
New York, NY 10036

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
10250 Constellation Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90067

Yellow Bird Films
Box 270 34
Stockholm 102 51
Sweden

Producers:

Scott Rudin
Ole Sondberg
Søren Stærmose
Mikael Wallen
Anni Fernandez
Steven Zaillian
Ryan Kavanaugh
Ceán Chaffin

Director:

David Fincher

Starring:

Rooney Mara - Lisbeth Salander
Daniel Craig - Mikael Blomkvist
Christopher Plummer - Henrik Vanger
Robin Wright - Erika Berger
Stellan Skarsgård - Martin Vanger
Embeth Davidtz - Annika Blomkvist
Joely Richardson - Anita Vanger
Joel Kinnaman - Christer Malm
Embeth Davidtz - Annika Blomkvist
Geraldine James - Cecilia Vanger
Yorick van Wageningen - Nils Bjurman
Goran Visnjic as Dragan Armansky
Moa Garpendal - Young Harriet Vanger

Story:

Harriet Vanger (Moa Garpendal), a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pieced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.