Photo Montage of Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, coupled with stills from "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"br br The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 English-language dramathriller film directed by David Fincher, adapted from Stieg Larsson's Swedish-language novel of the same name by Steven Zaillian.br br The film stars Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander and tells the story of a man's mission to find out what has happened to a girl who has been missing for 40 years, and who may have been murdered.