Over the course of his more than 35-year career as a director, director David Fincher has been associated with numerous projects that were later changed or never came to fruition. The list, which includes two sequels to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Rendezvous With Rama, and a sequel to World War Z, is a testament to how eclectic and diverse his choices are. How in demand is he in Hollywood? But during a recent interview on behalf of the 4K re-release of his blockbuster “Seven,” Fincher revealed one franchise he considered not moving forward after he offered his opinion on the material: “Harry Potter.” ”
“I was asked to come in and talk to them about how to do a Harry Potter movie,” Fincher said. diverse. “I remember saying, ‘I just don’t want to do the clean Hollywood version of it.’ ” “I want to do something that’s a lot like ‘Withnail and I,’ and I want it to be kind of scary.” -Selling books to young people about the eponymous wizard. “They were saying, ‘We want Tom Brown to be School Days by “Oliver.”
Among the upcoming projects he’s attached to and in development, Fincher is supposedly working on a US version of Netflix’s popular Korean series “Squid Game,” as well as a prequel miniseries to “Chinatown” that he co-wrote with the film’s final credits. Screenwriter Robert Towne. While discussing what attracts him to new projects, he thought about what attracted him in previous projects, many of which (“Dragon Tattoo,” “Gone Girl”) were based on material that had pre-existing popularity.
“Is there a built-in audience? That’s someone else’s job,” he insists. “These books are sold to movie studios when it turns out there’s a built-in audience, so I usually enter the food chain after it’s decided this is something delicious. I was interested in Gone Girl even though it was a bestseller…I liked the idea of punishment for our narcissistic tendencies when it comes to finding a mate.
He continued: “With Dragon Tattoo, I’m more in love with Chinatown and the shoe leather in it than anything related to piracy. But I loved this broken girl who had the opportunity to do research with this man she wasn’t entirely sure about. And I don’t even know that he’s nice to her; I think he treats her the way she wants to be treated, and that’s very clear to her. And if you’ve ever been to Sweden, you’re talking about a country the size of California and a population the size of Los Angeles County. There’s plenty of room in it for serial killers and body dumpers. And I really liked the idea of crossing the winter in the investigation.
Regarding “The Social Network,” Fincher described it as “just a script you can’t put down.” He had a more personal connection to the movie “Zodiac,” a 2007 book about the 35-year investigation into the Zodiac killings. “(The Zodiac Killer) was a bogeyman when I was seven years old, and I was going through the process that the main character was going through — what happened? I felt sympathetic to that. Benjamin Button, I loved the idea of romance with that kind of body count,” he added, laughing. “There are different things in every movie.”
Fincher emphasized that regardless of its origins (or commercial potential), each project stems from a unique combination of personal interest and professional opportunity. “There are different things about stories that resonate with you based on the films you like and the type of films you’ve made,” he said. “So, I don’t know how I choose the things I get involved in, but you get a longing for the place where you go, ‘I’d like to see this, I’d like to see it done this way.’”
“I like the idea that you can kind of pick and choose where you’re going to put your efforts — what you’re going to emphasize, what you’re going to obscure.”