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EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher is eyeing coming aboard Gone Girl, the Gillian Flynn novel that was just published by Crown and has been a bestselling phenomenon that was acquired in a 7-figure deal by 20th Century Fox to be produced by Pacific Standard’s Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea, along with Leslie Dixon. Flynn wrote the first draft of the screenplay. The plot: a woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary and all roads point to her husband as the killer. Flynn, who has three novels on the bestseller lists all at once, has two other movie projects in the works. Dark Places has Amy Adams attached to star, with Gilled Paquet-Brenner directing and her first novel, Sharp Objects, was optioned by Alliance with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum producing.
Fincher, who has been working on Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: Captain Nemo and has been rumored heavily to helm one of these Star Wars movies at that studio, has handled female-themed Panic Room with Jodie Foster. He’s repped by Josh Donen and attorney Craig Jacobson. He’s also still in the loop for continuing the Stieg Larsson series that began with Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which also had a great female protagonist.
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He turned Dragon Tattoo into an insufferable bore, so this news doesn’t exactly fill me with hope.
Wrong man for the material.
you’re an insufferable bore.
That’s for sure.
I loved 7even but that was a long time ago and Tattoo was a wreck.
Great director. SEVEN was incredible. Loved SOCIAL NETWORK. But you’re right — DRAGON TATTOO was botched.
To be fair, the book wasn’t that good to begin with, it preached louder than Oral Roberts and had more endings than The Return of the King.
Fincher should make The Killer. What is going on with that project?
Here’s a thought – why not have a female director direct a film with a female protagonist that is female themed. Enough already with the insufferable ‘male gaze.’ Like there’s something exciting about a man telling a woman’s story. Pass.
Stieg Larsson would turn over in his grave.
You mean Stieg Larsson the man who told a woman’s story?
hahahaha
BURN…
You guys pretty much sum up what Stieg Larsson was writing about, and the original title in Swedish: MEN WHO HATE WOMEN.
And, yes, I concur – Larsson was an anomaly. You guys? Not so much.
The book is pop genius – it’s really a relationship story masquerading as a crime procedural. Though I think Fincher could do it justice, isn’t there a fantastic female director who would bring a more accurate and nuanced understanding of the material? (Yes, I’m genderizing.) Say Kimberly Pierce, Karyn Kusama, Patty Jenkins?
I don’t know, much of the book is essentially unfilmable. A huge plot twist nearly halfway through **SPOILER ALERT** is that we think we’ve been reading a diary, but, guess what it’s just a fake diary full of fabricated events. Which is fine as a READING EXPERIENCE because you know you’re reading a diary, but I don’t know how you film a fake diary. Maybe Fincher does. Audiences tend not to like the whole “Ha ha fooled you, the movie you think you’ve been watching for the past hour never really happened.”
The book is fun in an interior, mind-fvcky way, but you boil down most of its actual filmable elements and it’s a small town procedural. I assume Flynn’s draft is a contractually-obligated vanity thing. If anyone can actually crack this the odds that it’s the book’s author with no proven screenwriting ability are going to be infinitesimally small.
also someone with a twisted sense of humor, black humor, definitely some humor
Can’t see Amy Adams as Libby Day.
She would be better Amy Dunne.
IMHO>
Correct. Libby Day is supposed to be 5′ tall, and that point is hammered home throughout the book.
Yes! Fichois needs to get in there with some pressure, jackhammer-style.
Thank God Witherspoon isn’t starring.
Who says she isn’t?
There’s time…just wait.
Are you kidding? She’s be perfect. What is Amy Dunne but Tracy Flick all grown up.
this book was so overrated…terribly written, major logic problems, oh and the ‘diary’…good luck “shooting” all the diary stuff that figures so prominently in the book- oh and PS
she faked the abduction.
Neil Jordan
I absolutely HATED this book because of the ending. The ending completely ruined it and was totally anti-climactic and unbelievable. (I mean..don’t get me wrong…not like the book could happen in real life, but there’s suspending disbelief…and then there’s this.) LOVED Dark Objects so I hope Jason Blum does a good job with that!
GILLES Paquet-Brenner. I doubt he’s an amphibian, or a fish.
Someone needs to get their crap together and get the sequel for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo moving.
This book had a horrible ending. I hated it! Almost threw my Kindle across the room. lol
Love David Fincher. He could make a great movie out of this crappy book.
Dragon Tattoo is fantastic and Fincher is expert at film compression––taking big stories and condensing them for film. He’s the best in the world at it.
hahahahahahahahaha. then why was Dragon Tattoo insanely overlong? He wrecked the chances of ever seeing the two sequels. the swedish one was so much better paced.
The saying I use… “the better the book, the worse the movie” . And as Joe Gillis would say… this one threatens to go the distance.
I luv Amy Adams so much, but HATE the book Dark Places. It’s horrendously boring and pointless, badly written. I don’t want to read Gone Girl or see any film based on any these novels. Can’t these film makers come up with anything better than this? yikes….
Larson’s book was written
Sorry, his book was partly written to raise awareness of rape as he witnessed one when young. Fincher’s versions wasn’t bad but they still need to be finished whether he directs or not. His dark side is perfect for such films.
Patty Jenkins should direct GONE GIRL.
She did Episode 1 and 2 and the finale of THE KILLING.
It was her direction of those 3 episudes that made the Rosie Larsen story so compelling, everything in between was not up to what she did. The last episod where the killer was revealec was mesmerizing and heartbrecking.
Are you kidding?! Fincher’s Dragon Tattoo was a masterpiece! His version makes the Swedish version look like a cheap B-movie.
Ah, not Witherspoon please. I just can’t see it. Amy Adams on the other hand..