David Fincher's "Gone Girl"

Birneybau

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jul/25/rosamund-pike-gone-girl-david-fincher-ben-affleck

From one of the biggest selling books of the year, David Fincher is directing Gillian Flynn's, to me deeply flawed, novel.

Hopefully he is not too shy with the scissors in adapting it.

Starring the pretty (vacant) Rosmund Pike and the whatever Ben Affleck.

Pity there ain't gonna be an adaptation of "The Girl who played with fire" by the looks of things.

Basq

Always looking forward to something from Fincher..

Birneybau wrote: »

Starring the pretty (vacant) Rosmund Pike .

..but who keeps giving her work? She's awful!

Mr E

Do you not think her constant wide-eyed startled look is endearing?

JP Liz V1

Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams or Emily Blunt would be my choices for Amy

conorhal

Basq wrote: »

Always looking forward to something from Fincher..


..but who keeps giving her work? She's awful!

She is, but I'm reading the book at the moment and when I heard, Ben Afleck and Rosmund Pike were to be cast I went ugh... .
then I got a bit further into the book and thought PERFECT!
My primary description of the two main characters in the book would be, a jock looking douche with a desperate insecure need for people to like him who is bitter at the failure of his once glittering career and now must readjust, and his superficially pretty and friendly wife who is all surface and in fact quite false and cold.

Here I think we have a case where both actors negatives become a positive for the film.

conorhal

conorhal wrote: »

She is, but I'm reading the book at the moment and when I heard, Ben Afleck and Rosmund Pike were to be cast I went ugh... .
then I got a bit further into the book and thought PERFECT!
My primary description of the two main characters in the book would be, a jock looking douche with a desperate insecure need for people to like him who is bitter at the failure of his once glittering career and now must readjust, and his superficially pretty and friendly wife who is all surface and in fact quite false and cold.

Here I think we have a case where both actors negatives become a positive for the film.

You do realise that Affleck's career, has in recent years gone from strength to strength. At this moment it time he's one of the most celebrated filmmakers in Hollywood and recently starred in a Terrence Malick film, hardly the pedigree of a washed up failure.

delbertgrady

conorhal wrote: »

... superficially pretty and friendly wife who is all surface and in fact quite false and cold.

January Jones not available, then?

rossy1044

The book falls apart spectacularly in the second half. It will be interesting to see can the movie avoid doing the same.

conorhal

Deleted User wrote: »

You do realise that Affleck's career, has in recent years gone from strength to strength. At this moment it time he's one of the most celebrated filmmakers in Hollywood and recently starred in a Terrence Malick film, hardly the pedigree of a washed up failure.

Well, yeah, but I'm only half way through the book. My point being (as it is in the book), perceptions and expectctations change.......

conorhal

delbertgrady wrote: »

January Jones not available, then?

She would actually be a pretty good choice for that character! These are not likeable people.

speedboatchase

Loved the book but I worry about the Rosamund Pike casting. She was distractingly bad in Jack Reacher.

When I read the book I kept picturing Amy Adams, who I feel could

play the dual role of dream girl (Enchanted) and borderline crazy (her punch-ups in The Fighter).

Apparently Amy Adams will star in Dark Places, an adaptation of an earlier book from the same author. Close enough I guess.

speedboatchase

rossy1044 wrote: »

The book falls apart spectacularly in the second half. It will be interesting to see can the movie avoid doing the same.

The author is writing the screenplay so I would expect minimal changes.

Chareth Cutestory

Gillian Flynn is writing the screenplay? Oh dear, I was hoping that maybe something decent could be made of this book. It's an utterly ludicrous and infuriating story, completely falls apart in the second half. And while the book still had the 'page turner' aspect I can't really see how this is going to be carried over to the film. The characters are complete as*holes. While a film obviously doesn't have to be full of likeable, cuddly, and endearing characters to be enjoyable, I just can't picture myself sitting through 90+ minutes of their dickery!

JP Liz V1

Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick Harris have joined the cast also

Bullseye1

Trent Reznor scoring the movie.
https://mobile.twitter.com/trent_reznor

vepyewwo

Poster



Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOPLieLQQQs

brevity

Love all things David Fincher but I dunno about that song for the trailer.

fruvai

That shot of Rosamund Pike at the end reminds me of Night of the Hunter:

upstairs for coffee

brevity wrote: »

Love all things David Fincher but I dunno about that song for the trailer.

I think the song is fitting. The song lyric "She may be the reason I survive" just as Affleck is posing by a poster of his missing wife and has a smile on his face.(at 49 seconds)


Zodiac is still top dog though

Sad Professor

I would have preferred the Elvis Costello version but otherwise the song is perfect. You can always tell what marketing materials Fincher has had a hand in.

dark crystal

Never watch trailers because I prefer seeing a film cold, but my oh just watched it there and it seems to give away a massive spoiler (the underwater shot). I'll be furious if it is an actual spoiler as I've really been looking forward to seeing this

mikom

Ben Affleck....... "Gone Girl".
Is this the follow up to "Gone baby gone".....?

rossy1044

mikom wrote: »

Ben Affleck....... "Gone Girl".
Is this the follow up to "Gone baby gone".....?

No but there is book sequel to Gone Baby Gone called Moonlght Mile... Its not great to be honest.

Snake Plisken

Actually looking forward to this! One thing Fincher does right is crime movies, and this strikes me from the trailer to be in the vein of Zodiac and Se7en, which are his best movies, haven't read the book but apparently he has changed the third act, so its different ending from the book!

Rubber_Soul

Second trailer online now. Haven't read the book myself but seems fairly spoilerish so you may want to avoid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym3LB0lOJ0o

Agent Coulson

I have never read the book and this is the first trailer I have seen for the movie.

For some reason I think I already know the ending and outcome of the movie I'm not sure if the trailer gives away to much or the story just seems very weak and obvious.

That alone kind of puts me off this.

Rubber_Soul

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I have never read the book and this is the first trailer I have seen for the movie.

For some reason I think I already know the ending and outcome of the movie I'm not sure if the trailer gives away to much or the story just seems very weak and obvious.

That alone kind of puts me off this.

It definitely does seem pretty spoiler heavy to me (as another that hasn't read the book), I've put a warning in the post just in case others want to avoid.

Colonel Panic

One of the themes of the book is that not everything is what it seems.

Princess Peach

Looking forward to this! Loved the book, and the trailers seem good!

The second one isn't actually that bad for spoilers at all, if they will be true to the book.

Burgo

mikom wrote: »

Ben Affleck....... "Gone Girl".
Is this the follow up to "Gone baby gone".....?

That's originally what I thought when I first heard about it.

Futura font and Trent Reznor, couldn't be anyone but Fincher

cloud493

Oh man this movie looks great oh wait rosamund Pike's in it I'm out.