David Fincher

David Fincher Originally Met With Lucasfilm About Star Wars: Episode 7

Before Disney selected J.J. Abrams as the man responsible for ushering in a new era of Star Wars, Gone Girl’s David Fincher met with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy about the possibility of directing Episode VII back in 2012. Whoa. According to /Film, Kennedy wanted Fincher for the job, but Fincher turned it down. But based…

io9 Rob Bricken Sep 29

David Fincher’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Would Have Been Bonkers

David Fincher was rumored to be taking on a remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but now he says he just couldn’t do it. Which is a shame, because it sounds like it would have been a totally insane trip. In a recent interview that touched on a bunch of Fincher’s projects, he tossed…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Sep 18

David Fincher’s new ads for the Gap are wonderfully weird

Not all great movie directors are capable of successfully survive the process of producing a big TV commercial without sacrificing their souls. David Fincher masters both fields and he proved it again in this weird and enigmatic black and white campaign for Gap. Check out David Fincher’s 10 best commercials according to AdWeek. SPLOID is…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Aug 28

Is David Fincher’s Black Hole movie back on?

With the financial success of World War Z and 12 Years a Slave getting all the critical buzz, Brad Pitt’s studio Plan B now has oodles of cash and a lot of leg room to get the rest of their slate done. And gloryosky, that could mean the return of David Fincher’s adaptation of the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 3

Do authors ever prefer the movie to their own book?

It’s common to say that the book is always better than the movie, but sometimes that isn’t true. Occasionally, a movie will come along that transforms its source material into something greater than the original. But how often do authors feel that a film adaptation has truly trumped their own work? It’s natural for authors…

Movies Lauren Davis May 5

Here’s Kevin Spacey Being Creepy In the Trailer for Netflix’s Next Original Series

On February 1, 2013 Netflix will premiere all 13 episodes of its latest original series, House of Cards. In the political drama directed by David Fincher, Kevin Spacey plays sneaky Congressman Francis Underwood. Netflix is basing much of its hopes for differentiating its service from others on offering compelling original content, and Mr. Spacey is…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Nov 15

Zombie King Kong, Giant Squids and Hordes of Zombies in New Goon Concept Art

There are only five days left to make a movie of Eric Powell’s fantastic comic book The Goon. That’s how long remains to the movie’s Kickstarter campaign. Only five days! And David Fincher and the folks from Blur Studios are so close to getting the funds needed to finish off their R-rated story reel, that…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 5

Exclusive details on David Fincher’s Kickstarter campaign for his zombie movie The Goon!

It’s been years since we’ve heard news about David Fincher’s adaptation of Eric Powell’s paranormal comic The Goon. But now the director, Powell, and the team over at Blur Studio have gone rogue in hopes of making The Goon a reality. Together they’ve started a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of making one massive story reel…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 12

An Exclusive Look at the Making of Dragon Tattoo‘s Stunning Titles

We’re still haunted by the oozing hands that smushed Lisbeth Salander’s lovely face in David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s title sequence. But what sort of Dragon Tattoo imagery is hidden amongst all these tangled vines of USB cables and “primordial dream ooze”? We spoke with co-founder of Blur and the title sequence’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 5

David Fincher explains why his Dragon Tattoo heroine isn’t a superhero

We sat down with director David Fincher to discuss the inner workings of the complex character that is The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, or Lisbeth Salander. Find out why Fincher is loathe to dub the crime-fighting hacker a superhero, and what his inspiration was for the much-buzzed-about tar titles from this film. Warning spoilers.…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 23

David Fincher reveals the operatic title sequence for his Spider-Man movie that never was

David Fincher is bringing your favorite Swedish hacker girl Lisbeth Salander to life in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo — but he almost tackled Spider-Man instead. In our exclusive interview, the director told us how he would have handled the web-slinger… and walked us through his operatic title sequence in great detail. Fincher has…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 19

New Goon footage sets the bar for a smarter supernatural movie

You’ve seen the gruesomely gorgeous trailer for The Goon, produced by David Fincher and voiced by Clancy Brown and Paul Giamatti. But now get a look at never-before-released footage from the 2009 San Diego Comic Con! https://gizmodo.com/the-goon-gets-a-gorgeously-gruesome-epically-absurd-tr-5591304 Based on the comic books by Eric Powell, The Goon showed this clip to Comic Con fans in…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 14

Hollywood contemplates killing off the “middlebrow” movie for a better blockbuster

The box office has spoken — no longer will the public fork over their wages for derivative movies like The Wolfman or Gulliver’s Travels. But does that mean better movies in 2011? Perhaps. The New York Times has an interesting round up of this year’s best performing films, paired next to the worst. It’s pretty…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 28

The Goon gets a gorgeously gruesome, epically absurd trailer

The movie adaptation of Eric Powell’s supernatural/scifi crime-fighting comic, The Goon, finally has a teaser trailer, and it’ll blow your mind. The David Fincher-produced movie, featuring Paul Giamatti, is amazingly gorgeous — so check it out, ya “slackjaws.” The film is written by creator Eric Powell, and Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown will voice Franky…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 20

New trailer for “The Social Network” is classic scifi techno-tragedy

There’s a good case to be made that The Social Network is a science fiction movie set in the present, about the way technology transforms human life – often with tragic and unintended consequences. The new trailer delivers on tragedy. https://gizmodo.com/is-the-social-network-a-science-fiction-movie-5580630 Of course the tragic victims are us, the people who use Facebook because we…

Trailers Annalee Newitz Jul 15

Is “The Social Network” a science fiction movie?

If you’ve seen ads for David Fincher’s upcoming flick The Social Network, you know it’s about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. But the tone is like Fincher classic Fight Club. The Social Network is that rarest of things: a scifi docudrama. Based in part on a book about Silicon Valley millionaires, the movie was written by…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 6

David Fincher To Tackle Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Remake

A while back, Disney scrapped Terminator Salvation director McG’s darker version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Now Disney’s talking with a new director, David Fincher of Fight Club and Se7en. His oeuvre ain’t sunshine and rainbows. https://gizmodo.com/disney-beaches-captain-nemo-5406605 According to THR, Fincher got the gig this winter by approaching Disney about directing “a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 16

Heavy Metal Movie’s Directors May Rock Your World

What kind of movie could bring together the directors of Pirates Of The Carribean, Fight Club, Terminator and Watchmen? According to producer Kevin Eastman, the answer is the upcoming Heavy Metal. Eastman spilled the beans to Film School Rejects over the weekend that James Cameron, Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski and David Fincher have signed on…

Movies Graeme McMillan Jun 8

The Curious Lawsuit Against Benjamin Button

Was multiple-Oscar nominated Benjamin Button originally written years ago by an Italian office worker? Legal papers filed yesterday say that that’s the (curious) case, and now we’re waiting for a Judge to weigh in. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Italian postal worker Adriana Pichini has filed papers that David Fincher‘s successful Brad Pitt vehicle –…

Movies Graeme McMillan Jan 31

Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death

Chances are, you already know if you’re going to like The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, the Brad Pitt weepie that opens tomorrow. And in a sense, the movie’s predictability is what it’s about. Spoilers!!! Okay, not literally. Literally, Benjamin Button is about a guy who’s born old and ages backwards, until he reaches childhood…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 24

David Fincher Originally Met With Lucasfilm About Star Wars: Episode 7

David Fincher’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Would Have Been Bonkers

David Fincher’s new ads for the Gap are wonderfully weird

Is David Fincher’s Black Hole movie back on?

Do authors ever prefer the movie to their own book?

Here’s Kevin Spacey Being Creepy In the Trailer for Netflix’s Next Original Series

Zombie King Kong, Giant Squids and Hordes of Zombies in New Goon Concept Art

Exclusive details on David Fincher’s Kickstarter campaign for his zombie movie The Goon!

An Exclusive Look at the Making of Dragon Tattoo‘s Stunning Titles

David Fincher explains why his Dragon Tattoo heroine isn’t a superhero

David Fincher reveals the operatic title sequence for his Spider-Man movie that never was

New Goon footage sets the bar for a smarter supernatural movie

Hollywood contemplates killing off the “middlebrow” movie for a better blockbuster

The Goon gets a gorgeously gruesome, epically absurd trailer

New trailer for “The Social Network” is classic scifi techno-tragedy

Is “The Social Network” a science fiction movie?

David Fincher To Tackle Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Remake

Heavy Metal Movie’s Directors May Rock Your World

The Curious Lawsuit Against Benjamin Button

Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death

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Judge Kills Lawsuit Against Infamous Study That Might Have Increased Teen Suicides

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