Christopher Plummer joins 'Dragon Tattoo'

Christopher Plummer is joining David Fincher's upcoming remake of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." He boards a project that already stars Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara and Stellan Skarsgård.

Craig plays a journalist who teams up with a tattooed hacker to get to the bottom of a 40-year unsolved murder. THR says Plummer plays the wealthy industrialist hiring them to crack the case.

Plummer recently worked on "9" and "The Last Station." He also appared in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" and voiced a character in "Up." You will soon get to see him in "Priest" with Paul Bettany.

Meet 'Doctor Parnassus' in theaters Dec. 25, 2009

Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" now finally has an official release date. You will be able to catch it in theaters Dec. 25, 2009. Sony Pictures Classics is distributing the film, which will mark Heath Ledger's final big-screen performance. The film will debut at the Toronto Film Festival.

Also starring in the fantasy adventure are Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law , Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield and Verne Troyer. Gilliam, of course, is know for films like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "Twelve Monkeys," and more recently, "The Brothers Grimm."

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