Tuesday, September 30, 2014

HBO keeping Fincher in the Gillian Flynn business

David Fincher's Gone Girl, opening Friday, has earned some spectacular reviews so far and is poised to rake in some serious box office, ushering in the more "mature" fall movie season.

Fincher must have had a great experience working with Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl's author, who also wrote the screenplay), as he'll be directing the entire first season of Utopia for HBO, which he'll be producing along with Flynn.

Utopia is based on a British conspiracy TV series created by Dennis Kelly, and focuses on five comic book fans who become targets of a sinister group upon discovering a manuscript for The Utopia Experiments, an unpublished cult graphic novel that seems to foretell all manner of global catastrophes. Sounds like a great property, and just Fincher's cup of tea - as well as ours.

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