The "What's Up" Page

David Fincher is set to Direct "Passengers" for USA Films. It is budgeted at $30 million dollars. (Fight Club was about $70 million.) "Passengers" is based on the short story by sci-fi writer Robert Silverberg. Read the blurb here from directorsworld.com http://directorsworld.com/.getarticle/.1922377016

There is no web site for this movie yet, but I'll keep checking.

David Fincher and Fight Club producer Art Linson are teaming up to start a new production company that will work with New Line Cinema to produce films. read the blurb here: http://directorsworld.com/.getarticle/.79585650

Of course, there is still this old article about Fincher's attachment to The Black Dahlia. But this is from very long ago and the newer stuff makes no mention of it. http://directorsworld.com/.getarticle/.460153070

 

 

Screenplay sites all over the internet are offering (free)

downloads of Jim Uhls' "FIGHT CLUB" script.

go to    www.dailyscript.com

You can also get various drafts of Se7en, The Game, and Alien3.

Note: Cinefex Magazine has done a really fine article on the special FX of Fight Club in their winter issue. (It has a still from Sleepy Hollow on the cover.) Cinefex is a great magazine. I highly recommend that you start reading it.

Also note that American Cinematographer and Film Comment have both done very good articles on the making of Fight Club.

American Cinematographer's artcle: http://www.cinematographer.com/magazine/nov99/anarchy/index.htm

Check out this great internet site about visual FX. There are several great articles and about 20 small video clips about Fight Club on their site. Some are clips from the movie, others are special FX tests, and others are scene previsualizations. http://vfxpro.com/.getarticle/.2140286376

According to an article about Brad Pitt in a recent issue of Premiere, David Fincher's next film is called "The Mexican." This is INCORRECT! "The Mexican" will be directed by someone else. Brad Pitt had been associated with the project, then he wasn't, and now he is again.

 

Reports about Fincher's attachment to "Rendezvous with Rama" and/or "The Black Dahlia" persist but go unconfirmed. Then rumors circulated about the long-awaited Spiderman film. Now Fincher is set to direct "Passengers" for USA films. But is "Passengers" his next film, or will he get one in before it? That's what we'd all like to know.

 

Fincher on Home Video:

FIGHT CLUB will come to DVD on..... oh, who knows anymore.  June 6th, maybe.  It will have deleted scenes and interviews. Also, there will be three tracks of commentary (David Fincher, Brad Pitt, and The Dust Brothers with isolated score). List price is close to $40 but if you order from the internet, you'll save about 40%. For example, Amazon.com and  DVDEXPRESS.com offer 40% off of pre-orders, bringing it to about $24.

Help me out by ordering your stuff from this page.

I've already found and sorted all the Fincher stuff you could want.

New Line Cinema had told me that they plan to release a new DVD of SE7EN on March 2nd, 2000. Well, that didn't happen.  Latest word is August.  The old DVD needed to be flipped half way through and it had no extras on the disc. The new one will probably be a Platinum (Special) Edition and will hopefully have multiple commentary tracks, trailers, production notes, still photos, behind the scenes documentarys, the original rough draft of the title sequence, the discarded opening scene, the storyboards of the alternate ending, etc, etc, etc... (The Criterion Edition laserdisc was awesome, but they didn't have the distribution rights to the DVD. But to be honest, I've often found that the Platinum Editions from New Line are better than some of the Criterion Collection's.) I'll keep you posted. * * * * *

A long time ago, I heard that Fincher may have been attached to direct a movie based on a popular comic book series by the name of "Shi". I've been told that it's a popular martial arts comic. Well, I guess that never panned out because someone else made the movie with Tia Carrere as Shi. Interesting Factoid: there was a time when David Fincher was attached to Blade, another comic book made into a movie.