The Sound/Music of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

January 05, 2012 - 12:00 AM

In this SoundWorks Collection exclusive we talk with Composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Sound Re-recording Mixer Michael Semanick, and Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer, and Supervising Sound Editor Ren Klyce.

MOVIE STUDIO

Columbia Pictures

SOUND STUDIO

Skywalker Sound

DIRECTOR

David Fincher

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Synopsis

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 English-language drama/thriller film. It is the second film to be adapted from the Swedish novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. The first was a 2009 Swedish-language/English dubbed film. The 2011 film was written by Steven Zaillian and directed by David Fincher. Daniel Craig stars as Mikael Blomkvist, and Rooney Mara stars as Lisbeth Salander. In essence, the film follows a man's mission to find out what has happened to a girl who has been missing for 36 years, and may have been murdered.

Sound Credits

Thom Brennan: foley editor
Sandy Buchanan: adr recordist
Mattias Eklund: voice-over recordist
Coya Elliott: assistant sound effects editor
Malcolm Fife: dialogue supervisor
Mark C. Grech: second boom
Daniel A. Greenwald: additional utility sound
Scott Guitteau: sound effects editor
David C. Hughes: sound effects editor
Doc Kane: adr mixer
Noah Katz: digital audio engineer
Ren Klyce: re-recording mixer
Ren Klyce: sound designer
Ren Klyce: supervising sound editor
Oleg Kulchytskyy: sound re-recording mixer
Stefan Ljungberg: boom operator
Kyrsten Mate: sound effects editor (as Kyrsten Mate Comoglio)
Jeremy Molod: assistant supervising sound editor
Alyson Dee Moore: foley artist
Chris Munro: sound mixer
Nathan Nance: assistant sound re-recording mixer
Al Nelson: sound effects editor
Larry Oatfield: sound effects editor
Rune Palving: sound recordist
David Parker: re-recording mixer
Bo Persson: sound mixer
Michael Primmer: boom operator
Richard Quinn: adr supervisor
David Raymond: sound utility
John Roesch: foley artist
Ronald G. Roumas: recordist
Michael Semanick: re-recording mixer
James Spencer: assistant sound re-recording mixer
Mark Weingarten: sound mixer
P.J. Corvus: audio technical support (uncredited)