Watch: New 'Dragon Tattoo' Footage

The countdown is on for David Fincher's stateside take on Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and we've got stirring, never-before-seen footage from the movie!

The haunting murder mystery stars Daniel Craig as a political journalist who teams up with a goth computer hacker (Rooney Mara) to solve a dangerous, decades-old disappearance.

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The film was shot in cold, wintery Sweden, which had quite an impact on Craig: "There's a scene at the beginning of the movie where I first go to Hedestad and it's one of the coldest days we had, and I wasn't dressed appropriately, so I froze my butt off."

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Also starring Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright and Joely Richardson, 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the first film in a planned big-screen trilogy based on Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy, which was already filmed in Sweden in the author's native language.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is coming to theaters December 21.