David Fincher’s latest is an impressive darkly comic foray into the perils of perception, though it doesn’t entirely transcend its pulpy narrative.
Gone, Girl, Gone: David Fincher and the Art of Adaptation
The recent announcement that Gillian Flynn, author of the smash-hit thriller Gone Girl, was drastically revising the book’s ending in her screenplay version for David Fincher brought with it outrage and an instant wealth of publicity. The change for film shouldn’t be such a shock, though, considering the way in which Fincher and his screenwriters have approached existing literary works for film before.
In the first ‘Gone Girl’ trailer Ben Affleck fights against public perception and an ironic soundtrack
The teaser trailer for David Fincher’s much-awaited adapation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl has been released this week and, well, it’s haunting but perhaps lacks the power of the teasers for his two last features, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network. Where those teasers also used music to great effect, here