Here you see the first image of actress Rooney Mara (Nightmare on Elm Street) as pissed-off hacker-punk Lisbeth Salander in Columbia Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s bestselling novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

W Magazine scored the shot along with a lengthy interview with director David Fincher, who reveals that he put Mara through an audition test that required her to “kick a dildo” up some guy’s ass. Fincher also discusses his previous films, including Zodiac, Seven, and Alien 3.

The interview offers no explanation, however, for Fincher’s decision to make Mara as fugly as the chick in the original Swedish film (see gallery below). Isn’t the point of a remake to make things look better? Fucking Hollywood. Never gets it right.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo costars Robin Wright (Unbreakable), Joely Richardson (“Nip/Tuck”), Stellan Skarsgard (Melancholia), Christopher Plummer (Priest), and Daniel Craig in the role of journalist Mikael Blomkvist.

Columbia Pictures will also adapt the other two entries in Larsson’s widely popular Millennium Trilogy: “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” Collectively the novels have sold over 40 million copies worldwide.