"American Horror Story" Kate Mara to star in new David Fincher project

"American Horror Story" star Kate Mara is set to star alongside Kevin Spacey in a David Fincher's "House of Cards," Nextflix's first series.

The project which is an adaptation of the British series of the same title, is based on Michael Dobbs' book. It is "political thriller centered around the scheming Francis Urquhart, Chief Whip of the Conservative party, who plots to unseat the current Prime Minister and ensure his own election as party leader thus making himself Prime Minister. A young female reporter gets close to the story and to Urquhart himself, risking her integrity and soul."

In Fincher's American adaptation, Spacey will be playing Frank Underwood, the series' male protagonist with Robin Wright as Underwood's wife.

Mara will be taking on Zoe Barnes, "the young reporte who becomes caught in Underwood's web."

Mara who is the 28-year old sister of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" star Rooney Mara, portrayed a scorned woman in "American Horror Story."

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Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" full trailer

One of the books in Stieg Larsson's award-winning "Millinneum Series" is getting another adaptation.

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (original Swedish title "Män som hatar kvinnor"), the first book in Larsson's series will be by Academy award-winning director David Fincher ("Fight Club") and unlike its Swedish counterpart by Niels Arden Oplev, this adaptation will be in English.

The original Swedish adaptation of Larsson's "Millineum Series" starred Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist who both starred in the other two films in the trilogy. The 2011 adaptation stars English actor Daniel Craig ("Casino Royale") and American television and film actress, Rooney Mara ("Social Network") as Lisbeth Salander.

The original Swedish film version of the book received positive reviews and Rapace's performance was greatly praised making "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" an unforgettable film.

Niels Arden Oplev's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trailer:

The film is scheduled to be released both in United States and Canada on the 21st of December, 2011.

Here is the full trailer for David Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo":

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Netflix Presents "House of Cards"

Netflix is moving away from it's traditional role as the place to rent your movies and TV shows when it secured the rights to "House of Cards," a 26-episode television series starring Kevin Spacey.

"House of Cards" is a remake of the BBC minisiers of the same name and is a political thriller directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network.)

"House of Cards" will debut in United States and Canada exclusively on Netflx in late 2012.

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The Millenium series - rewriting the ending...

Whilst the world gets to enjoy the Swedish movie adaptation of the hugely popular 'Millenium Trilogy' of books (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fired, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest - read them if you haven't already!), Hollywood has decided to rewrite the entire ending!

Apparently David Fincher (director of The Social Network, Seven, Fight Club & others) and scriptwriter  Steven Zaillia have taken their own path with Steig Larsson's storyline, claiming that "Blomkvist is less promiscuous, Salander is more aggressive, and, most notably, the ending — the resolution of the drama — has been completely changed. This may be sacrilege to some, but Zaillian has improved on Larsson - the script's ending is more interesting."

This will make a lot of die hard fans very angry, but it will be interesting to see how it all pans out. The actress playing Lisbeth (Rooney Mara) has made a fantastic physical transformation for the role and Fincher is well known for his 'dark' take on situations. Daniel Craig is also starring.

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