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Craig signs on for 'Dragon Tattoo'

Daniel Craig has a new mission. The current star of the James Bond films has signed on for the English-language remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Distributor Sony Pictures confirmed that Craig is taking on the role of journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the thriller based on the first novel in the best-selling series from the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson.

The violent story teams Blomkvist with the title character, Lisbeth Salander, a deeply troubled genius tormented by a terrible childhood, as they delve into the mystery of a missing girl whose disappearance leads them to a string of decades-old murders.

The role of Lisbeth has not yet been cast.

Directed by David Fincher, the film is due in theaters next year.

Stone: Sorry for Holocaust remarks

Filmmaker Oliver Stone has apologized for remarks about the Holocaust and Jewish media influence that were criticized as being anti-Semitic.

"In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret," Stone said in a statement released Monday.

The apology followed comments about the Holocaust that Stone made to the Sunday Times of London.

Stone also discussed what he called "Jewish domination of the media," using an expletive to say that Israel had fouled "up United States foreign policy for years."