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David Fincher's remake of 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' still has no lead?

Apparently so, contridicting early reports that had Carey Mulligan winning the role from Kristen Stewart. Here's the story from Deadline:

Every hot young actress in Hollywood wants to play the lead in Sony Pictures' The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. But will David Fincher cast one of them -- or go with an unknown? This is the studio's next 3-film franchise based on Swedish author Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy. It begins with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (there's a very well-received Swedish version in theaters right now), and continues with The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. So what's described to me as "creme de la creme" of young actresses are calling Sony execs as well as producer Scott Rudin and asking if they "can come in for a meeting" about it.

Carey Mulligan, the Oscar nominee from The Education, actually phoned the pic's writer Steve Zallian and took him to lunch. (Reminds me of that bad joke about the ambitious actress and the writer.) Juno Oscar nominee Ellen Page wrote a heartfelt note to Rudin. (Her Hard Candy persona is perfect for the part.) Sony execs insist they're "nowhere near casting". But Mulligan, Page, Kristen Stewart, Mia Wasikowska, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Anne Hathaway, Olivia Thirlby, and Scarlett Johannsen are all circling.

The problem is that director David Fincher "is not sure if he wants to go with an actress of any note or go with an unknown," an insider tells me. "David's process is very specific and private. He's looking for authenticity and a degree of fierceness and believeability capable of delivering the intensity that the part on the page calls for." I hear Sony execs think the bestseller itself is such a phenom, and the material so exciting, that the twentysomething female lead doesn't need a name. On the other hand, they think the male lead does require a star, and the studio is waiting for an answer from Brad Pitt.

-I think all the actresses are excellent and could do a great job, but I don't know that I have a favorite...do you? Thoughts?

Kristen Stewart to go 'On the Road'?

Yes indeed, as she's been cast in the adaptation of the seminal book. Here's the story from The Hollywood Reporter:

Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund are walking the line for Walter Salles' long-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."

Shooting is set to begin in August on the $25 million production, backers said Thursday.

Salles producer partner Rebecca Yeldham is teaming with French production banner MK2, which snapped up the rights and will produce the pic in collaboration with Film4 in the U.K. and Videofilmes in Brazil.

Salles traveled across the U.S. in Kerouac's footsteps to work out the adaptation, filming a documentary on the search for "On the Road" as part of his preparation.

Oscar-nominated scribe Jose Rivera ("The Motorcycle Diaries") has penned the adaptation for Salles.

Stewart will play Dean Moriarty's incandescent on-and-off wife Marylou, while Riley will star as Kerouac's alter ego Sal Paradise. Hedlund has been cast as Moriarty.

"We are enormously proud to be collaborating on one of the last great cinematographic adventures of the 20th century to be brought to the screen," MK2 execs Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert said.

Kerouac's cult novel of youth and freedom was first published in 1957 and has sold several million copies all over the world.

-I like how this is shaping up so far...thoughts?