The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 Swedish-American psychological thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. This film adaptation was directed by David Fincher and written by Steven Zaillian. Starring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, it tells about Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist, who hires Lisbeth Salander, a computer hacker, to solve the mystery of a woman who has been missing for forty years.