Slog tipper Gordon sent this along yesterday, but we've been so buried, we just got a hold of it today:
The longtime partner of late Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson says he wouldn't have approved of merchandise being linked to this week's release of a Hollywood adaptation of his bestselling novel, "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."
Eva Gabrielsson said Monday that Larsson would have instead used the buzz around his work to call attention to violence and discrimination against women.
"We would never have sold any rights for merchandising," Gabrielsson said. "It has nothing to do with books."
This is in response to the news that H&M is releasing a Dragon Tattoo-movie-inspired line of clothing, which kind of makes me want to die:
Gabrielsson has every right to believe that Larsson wouldn't sell out his ideals, of course. But who can say how it really would have turned out? Hollywood money is pretty persuasive; I was at a pre-publication dinner for The Da Vinci Code, where Dan Brown promised us, to great applause, that there would never be a film version of his book, because readers deserved the right to read his books without picturing Ben Affleck as the main character. That vow lasted about a year.
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