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What David Fincher has in the works next!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... Well, there is some news about some music videos that David Fincher is apparently up to be directing, and after that... well I have some more Fincher news... So read on....
Heya harry,
dont know bout you but I loved fight club, and feel comewhat upset that
David Fincher never got the credit he deserved for that film!!
Not sure if you listen to music or are just a pure bred film finatic but 'a
perfect circle' is a new band who havent even released a record yet. But
considering having maynard (lead singer of Tool) on board I can see why
virgin records are so excited... and fincher.... and me!! and the millions
of tool fans... AAAAAGH *is excited*
Anyhow check this-
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"Los Angeles, CA March 29, 2000 -- Acclaimed director David Fincher has been
tapped to direct the first video by Virgin recording artists A Perfect
Circle. Fincher will direct the video for "Judith," the expansive, hard rock
first single from the group's highly anticipated debut album Mers de Noms,
slated for a May 23 release. "Judith" will be Fincher's first video in four
years.
Fincher's unique visual style garnered him worldwide acclaim for directing
videos by artists such as Madonna ("Express Yourself") and the Rolling
Stones ("Love Is Strong"), keeping him atop of every video producer's wish
list. In the past few years, Fincher has turned to directing feature films
including the critically acclaimed movie "Seven," the Michael Douglas and
Sean Penn thriller "The Game" and his most recent release "Fight Club." Due
to his hectic film schedule, Fincher has found little time to work on videos
but after listening to Mer de Noms,he has agreed to direct the clip in
between his upcoming film projects.
A Perfect Circle is a melodic, aggressive rock band formed by Tool's Maynard
James Keenan (vocals) and the band's founder, producer and chief songwriter
Billy Howerdel (guitar). Rounding out the band are Troy Van Leeuwen
(ex-Failure,Enemy) on guitar, Paz Lenchantin on bass and Josh Freese
(Vandals, GNR) on drums. A Perfect Circle will open for Nine Inch Nails on
their upcoming nationwide tour."
woweeeeee, this album must be damn good...
spanks, quamb
Alright all you Fincher fans.... After watching Fincher dazzle with SEVEN, THE GAME and FIGHT CLUB... it seems that he's picking up the pace with each film. Well, Today, through the old Victorian Pnuematic tubing from Moriarty Labs, I heard tale from the old man, that Fincher has just signed aboard to direct a project that... Well.... it's been languishing.
This project has been all over the place and has been a script that the long timers... Corona and I... have been tracking since... well, since the beginning. Way back in 1998 it had been languishing in hell, till Jan De Bont and BLUE TULIP picked up with Mace Neufeld this John Patrick Shanley (CONGO, ALIVE, WE'RE BACK: A DINOSAUR'S STORY, JOE VS THE VOLCANO, JANUARY MAN and MOONSTRUCK) screenplay called PATHFINDER.
It was attached to... well just about EVERY action star known to man at one point or another.... Arnold, Mel, Connery, Douglas, Ford, etc... Budgets on this thing have been in excess of $65 to $120 million in the rumored past. At one point, the film was even being rewritten for De Bont after he saw THE GAME.
De Bont went off to make THE HAUNTING and... that was the last we had heard about it. TILL NOW. With Mandalay, Neufeld, Blue Tulip and Paramount all being in the game for the film at various points... It now seems the film has found a home with MUTUAL, the same folks that were behind MAN ON THE MOON and this summer's THE PATRIOT.
From what Moriarty's urgent tele-type read...
Headgeek: STOP
Fincher signed on with Mutual: STOP
Production will be fast tracked for release next year: STOP
Love you: STOP
Moriarty out: STOP
Well, that's not much to go on, but I've been researching my own archive and vaults... as we speak Father Geek is in the AICN GEEK HEADQUARTERS CATACOMBS shoveling through development hell scripts looking for PATHFINDER. It's down there somewhere... though I'm sure this isn't the draft that Fincher and company are going to move on.
You see... since Patrick, David Weisberg (THE ROCK, DOUBLE JEOPARDY) and George Nolfi (who has been writing on MICRONAUTS and A YEAR WITHOUT SANTA) and Douglas Cook (Weisberg's writing partner). And those are just the names I've heard of. So what is the state of the current script? Well... do ya trust Fincher? I do. So I have to guess the script is pretty darn good and exceeds the expectations of a logline that says:
A CIA agent escapes a Serbian prison and learns that his former cell mate a brilliant Serbian spy has liberated a war crimes general and hijacked a payload of plutonium.
To read more on where this project was once at, check out Coming Attraction's PATHFINDER page. This will be Fincher's largest scale film to date. It was once a gigantic action film, that kept trying to get smarter than that. So with Fincher at the helm... I have no doubts that production now has the brain it needed.
Excited yet?
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Harry's been holding back this story for like two days, the cruel bastard, but now I know. Fincher is incredible. "This project is being fast tracked" are words I like to hear...
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You know who should direct this film? David Fincher!!! What? You mean...he...oh. Sorry.
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Did Rendezvous With Rama die at some point? Because Morgan Freeman was supposed to be in that and he needs a good film. I mean, what has he been that's actually deserved him since Seven?
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Speaking of Morgan Freeman, what is going on with "Under Suspicion"? It was supposed to be released last month, but DH talked about just wrapping prinicpal? Also, I've heard a few people say it's already been released abroad! What the hell is going on?!...in case you don't know, it's a remake of a French film called "Garde a vue", and also starts Gene Hackman.
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Remember a little forgotten gem of a film called Hard Rain! Of fucking course you didn't! No one could forget Hard Rain! Hard Rain was one of the most underrated films EVER! And let's not forget about another misunderstood gem called Chain Reaction! Jesus people! Get your act together! Yes, I'll agree, both Kiss The Girls and Deep Impact were weak, weak movies. But go rent Hard Rain and Chain Reaction, and watch Mr. Freeman go to work like only Morgan Freeman CAN! Feel free to flame me all you please, nobody liked Hard Rain or Chain Reaction except me and three other people...all of which live in my town. But all you Hard Rain lovers out there should unite and sing it's praises! Right here on talkback! Aight, I'm out like gay trout. L8.
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Damn, Vegas, if you're watching, this just makes the May 22 NIN/A Perfect Circle concert even more incredible. And the album comes out THE DAY AFTER THE FUCKING CONCERT!!!! Dammit! Anyway, Fincher is cool, and the Pathfinder project sounds promising. Personally, I'd like to see Fincher handle something light, myself. I'm sure he is tired of being the "dark" director.
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From the Done Deal Website.
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Under Suspicion is released this month at the Cannes Film Festival.
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What about the cinematic gem ALIEN3? How could ANYONE forget that one? Actually, I DID kinda like that one. Anyway, with everything from ALIEN3 right up to Fight Club, Fincher's been on a steady roll, but this particular one sounds like a piece of crap.
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the one that Fincher was supposed to be considering, the sci-fi one 'bout them aliens that hijack humans etc. etc., thats something that Alex Proyas should do, man that would rule
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This is good news because after "Seven" & "Fight Club" Fincher could direct a movie about a suburban family painting their house and I'd go see it. With Fincher, you don't always know what you're gonna get, but you can bet it will at least be interesting, and he's one of the few directors I can say that about. Plus PT Anderson doesn't like him, which gives him even more points in my book!
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Could we just take a second and praise Hollywood. No matter how much producers and studios are painted as a bunch of know-nothing, money obsessed fuck-ups who know nothing but how to throw money at problems and how to screw every comic property; we must give them major props for giving Fincher another big movie. He's done nothing but lose money hand-over-fist with Fight Club, The Game, and Alien3, but Hollywood still recognizes his artistic genius enough to hand him his most expensive project yet. Let's hear it for Hollywood. We also owe Hollywood a lot of credit for ignoring all of those GLARING Ridley Scott failures which require more than one hand to count and still handing him Gladiator and a big budget. Oh, and handing him Hannibal too.
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The LAST THING David Fincher needs to do next is some crappy CIA agent -hijacked plutonium "action" movie...sure, bringing him on is probably a good thing for the movie, but not a good thing for Fincher. He's smart enough to make it work, but, to tell the truth, he's too smart to spend his time on a movie like this. Whatever happened to Rendezvous with Rama or the Blue Dahlia? Surely there are scripts out there that don't involve CIA agents and hijacked plutonium...
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I heard that Fincher's next project is supposed to be THE PANIC ROOM, a script that David Koepp wrote about a woman and her daughter trapped in a house with a serial killer. I've read the PATHFINDER script and I gotta say it doesn't seem very Fincher-esque. I'd love to see him finally get to THE BLACK DAHLIA, but the script needs a good working over. As for this music video, I can't wait. I wasn't that excited about the band until I read that one of the guys from the Vandals is in it. Now I'm mildly interested.
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Who watches videos anymore? Nobody shows em xcept that annoying slit on Friday night.
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....this film not Fincheresque enough? How about the Harry Potter film, he was mentioned for that too. Besides, he can't do the same depressing stuff all through his career. Hitchcock did some comedies and Lynch did The Straight Story.
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But I don't know about this particular project...hmmm. I really liked the ideas behind PASSENGERS and BLACK DAHLIA, but hell, he could direct a movie called TEST PATTERN and I'd stare mindlessly at those pretty color bars for at least an hour and a half. I just don't like the idea of anyone being on board who was involved with Double Jeopardy. No, like Battlefield Earth, I have not seen Double Jeopardy and do not plan to, ever. The reason I don't like it is that the legal premise the movie centers around does not hold up in court, for if she was going to be committing the same crime it would have to be done in the exact same way, exact same place...at the EXACT SAME TIME. Didn't the writer do any research? That's bad writing people, and I don't need to see anything someone that stupid has to put out. But if Fincher directs it, I will anyway. And as for the person who has qualms about Fincher directing a typical big budget terrorist action movie, remember Fincher's penchant for endings. I'm willing to bet the terrorist would win (or at least blow some people up real good), and that the movie would be anything but typical. It would be Fincher.
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I hate those people who say!
no Fincher film makes profit
Seven was a huge hit!
The Game made it money back at the us boxoffice
but now you say Fight Club cost 60 m. and just made 35. Thats kinda bad. Can you actually believe that there are also people in Europe who watch movies?The point is, in EUrope NOBODY goes out and watch The waterboy or such American dumb boxoffice hits. Fight Club was kinda a hit in Europe and here in Austria it still play in cinemas and it was released in october two days after the american release. It plays every Sa. and Sunday. And it wount stop. Its like if there are people who watch it over and over again. I just wanted you to know that Fight Club made over 120 million dollars at the international boxoffice. and PS: every Fincher movie made enough profit! even Alien -
I get sick of people saying how a film like "Waterworld" was the biggest bomb ever. The film never even lost money! it was a HUGe hit overseas and made a nice profit.
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I thought that RWR was to be next after Fight Club. I've been waiting for this thing to happen.
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Heyas, the perfect circle video clip can be now downloaded at www.virginrecords.com.
Grunter2, ive heard some of the album at it sounds damn good... though not up there with Tool. And no one is looking for the new Cobain... shit, most of us are just tryen to get as far as away from the top 20 bullshit such as boyzone as possible. Maynard is a genious, rollingstone last year stated maynard along with thom yorke (radiohead) and some dude from 'the teaparty' are the three best artists/musicians worth listening to today... go figure.
AND YES!! Rendesvous with Rama needs to be made, it would be the most kick ass movie ever... the whole book screams out this. And possible for multiple sequels as well... funky.
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First off, Finche ris the director of my two fav movies, SEVEN and FIGHT CLUB. Second, he is doing A PERFECT CIRCLE's new video.
What these fuckin morons are saying about this band being bad is far from it. I had the opportunity to see A PERFECT CIRCLE at a secret show at the key club here in LA. They are absolutely an amzing band. If you're talking about skynard and those classic rock bands, that is way different, but the pure musicianship is there. It is a simple equation, if you don'tlike tool, there a pretty good chance you'll not like this band. However, as a NIN fan and now A PERFECT CIRCLE's fan, these guyz are worth the extra time for FINCHER. I Can't wait to see this video. Melodic, rhythmic, talented, MAynard's vocals are spectacular. I better shut up. These guyz rule. Get their CD. Fincher can't be wrong. (felt compelled to say something after all those bad reviews).
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I think that the problem with this news story isn't that Fincher is trying something different from what he has before, but the fact that it just sounds so...High Concept. The Game was not much more than a nifty idea, but it was pretty fucking original. Seven was a very cool variation on the old serial killer movie, and artistically was head & shoulders above Dirty Harry and the like. "Pathfinder" sounds like a typical political action film with a bunch of expensive set pieces. Could it really be much better than Mission:Impossible or M:I2? A generic story done with style? I was much more interested in seeing Fincher's take on The Black Dahlia, one of the best books I've read in recent years (even though it's older). Maybe he didn't want to do two book adaptions in a row. The "Passengers"project seemed MUCH more interesting and opportune.
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First off, I think anything Fincher turns to gold. I'm sure if i read the script for Se7en, I would like it, but I'm sure I wouldn't regard it as the masterpiece Fincher turned it into. I think The Game is as close to a perfect movie as I've seen and Fight Club is even better. Granted I'm not the world's biggest fan of Alien 3, but who is. It was a crappy studio picture, pure and simple. I hear that s Fincher's Director's Cut of it is somewhere there. I would die to see that.
Can't wait for the next thing from Fincher, no matter what it is.
The Defintive Fight Club Archive
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I got sooo scared when I watched that fucker, I almost shit my pants.
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from the official floria sigismondi web page (artist/music video director: marilyn manson, david bowie, tricky, plant & page, etc.)
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Fincher's Black Daliah is based on James Ellroy's novel of the same title. Ellory was the guy who wrote L.A. Confidential, for those of you who don't read.
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Why are Serbs the bad guys every where you look? They sustained weeks of bombing with no terrorist response. They released the only prisoners they took. And we are expected to believe that there is a CIA prisoner in a Serbian jail and that the Serbs are hatching some sort of nuclear terrorism plot?
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You know what I'm tired of? little foreign people trying to tell me what's wrong with my country... you know America... THE ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE that fuels the world... the one that spends more on it's own entertainment every year than the european union spends on personal hygeine... sure we make a lot of movies and some of them are pure crap... but I'll take American crap any day over some pretentious foreign film that everyone is too afraid to discuss in an unfavorable light for fear of being ridiculed by some little Frenchy prick... truth is there is nothing new coming out story wise that hasn't had some aspect of it covered by the greeks but that's the fun part we lampoon the bad ones and enjoy new twists on the old favorites... Fight Club was one of the most intelligent and hilarious movies of the year... and Fincher is the reason for it amazingly black humor...
PS And Yes...Yes I am a shameless antagonist is that going to be a problem? -
First, I am an American. Don't be such an assumptive ass. You sound like a prepubescent, ignorant little snip of fluff, Bong. And you have spent too much time over a bong if you thought Fight Club was intelligent. Interesting dialogue. Dumb plot. The fight club idea, properly executed could have sustained the movie. But the writer was not up to the task and brought in the stupid split personality crap and the terrorism plot. Yawn. Some guy sees Ed Norton pounding on himself and wants to join fight club? Yeah. And Ed can't get arrested without every cop being part of his drone force? Ready to throw away police careers to embrace his bumper sticker alter ego's Hume ripped philosophy? Yeah... intelligent stuff. If you are 13.
Seven was intelligent. Fight Club was not. Goes to show you that the director is not the author of the film. There's this guy called a "writer" who either writes a good script or a bad script. When I say I expect better from Fincher after Seven, I mean in his choice of films... not in the plot of the film, which is not his territory. Fight Club... intelligent...lol. -
What the heck is this about a micronauts screenplay?
I have the whole series of comics. That could possibly be the new Star wars. It had the coolest stories. The crappy thing was that Baron Karza would seem like Vader. But to be honest, Karza could be cooler. I want to hear more about that if possible. If a screen play is in the works, there must be some kind of payment going out to the writer. I hope there is genuine interest and that something happens with it. -
Occasionally I have the misleading notion that people are getting smarter, and then I see comments like Vynson's about Fight Club. Did you ever get the idea that there was a reason why many parts of the film didn't seemed reality based? It because they are ARBITRARY! Have you ever thought there could be additional levels of, perhaps, thought, or irony used in a story? Have you ever heard of "A Modest Proposal" by Swift? I hate to break it to you, but it really wasn't about eating Irish babies...honest.
It makes me angry to find that people need to shut off their brains to watch movies. Give me a fucking break, man. There are things you are supposed to think about in this movie, not something you can ignore while you make out with your girlfriend or whatever.
Think next time before you open your mouth and let out an ignorant opinion.
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What is happening with the Black Daliah film as rumers have been floating around for a while? Fincher is one of the few director who may be able to match the books quality. BTW Any other Ellroy adaptations out there?
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Apparently, "thoughtmachine" is it? looks at movies like modern art lovers look at art. They don't mind doing all the work. Give them a canvas filled with random splatters of paint and they will tell you what it means and how it captures the true soul of the world and how you have to be rich enough in though and spirit to bring something to it in order to get something out of it and... yawn. The fact is that Fight Club could have been a good movie about the plight of the savage male animal in a consumer society where his instincts to fight are as useless as his nipples. Or it could have been about Ed Norton's split personality. Or it could have been about cults and terrorism. All three showing up is a sign that the writer had no idea where he was going. He would have thrown anything in there to get his script past 120 pages. If this guy had done the script for "Gone With The Wind," there would be aliens and killer bees.
Brad Pitt and Ed Norton gave great performances. But since they only had the script of Fight Club to work with, we are left with a movie that, as I said, has some brilliant dialogue, but horrible structure and a plot that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up.
As to "thoughtmaster's" comments about my inability to think my way through the film, I got it. It wasn't like the subtext was subtle or anything. We were beat over the head with it.
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but, evidently the writers of FIGHT CLUB (screenplay and novel) have not. Mr. Thoughtmachine, you talk of the story having levels. I'm sorry but I have to disagree. The potentially interesting subject matter was given a consistently superficial treatment especially in the film's second half. How can you presume to lecture people for missing the sub-text of a film which makes every effort to spoon feed us it's underdeveloped themes. FIGHT CLUB is a well acted and visually interesting film but there is less here than meets the eye. Oh, and I have read A MODEST PROPOSAL and it is everything that FIGHT CLUB is not. It is brilliantly written, concise, and utterly commited to it's message
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