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Born on May 10, 1962, Fincher originally hailed from Denver. Like one of his predecessors, the infamous Kenneth Anger, he stepped behind a camera at the tender age of eight and, particularly inspired by the work of George Lucas, reeled in his first major industry job ten years later at Lucas' own Industrial Light and Magic. After his four-year stint at ILM, during which he worked on such productions as Return of the Jedi (1983) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Fincher helmed commercials and music videos for the likes of Aerosmith, Paula Abdul, and Madonna. Following the disappointment of Alien 3, his directorial debut, the filmmaker received Andrew Kevin Walker's screenplay for Seven, and almost immediately signed on to helm it; it reached cinemas in late 1995. A noirish, grimly atmospheric crime thriller starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt as detectives following the gruesome trail of a serial killer (Kevin Spacey), innumerable critics hailed the picture as one of the most innovative and unsettling of the decade, and duly established its director as one of Hollywood's most exciting and unusual new talents. Relentlessly grim and oozing with rancid cynicism, this A-budget feature strayed so far from the escapist fare that typically primes a film for mainstream box-office success that many insiders anticipated limited appeal, but Fincher's stylistic panache and inhibition-defying gutsiness turned Seven into a runaway smash, on both commercial and critical fronts.
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Fincher’s latest is “Zodiac,” based on Robert Graysmith’s autobiographical accounting of his hunt for the San Francisco Bay Area ‘Zodiac killer’ in the 70s. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chloë Sevigny, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., and Brian Cox, “Zodiac” has opened to strong reviews that highlight Fincher’s impressively pared-down, less manic style. Instead of the gross-out fever dream of “Se7en,” “Zodiac” is more subdued but no less terrifying. His next will be the F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” with “Babel” co-stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
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Described as a sci-fi love story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is Fincher's next film; completed and set for theatres in November 2008. It is an adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's short story of the same name. The film will unite Fincher with Brad Pitt for the third time. The film started shooting in November 2006 in New Orleans, before moving on to the Virgin Islands, Montreal, and L.A.. Both Zodiac and this film are co-productions of Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures.
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Synopsis: As directed by David Fincher and adapted by scribe Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) from the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story of the same name, the fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button stars Brad Pitt as the title character. Button begins the story as an old man, then begins physically aging inRead More
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Fate finally came knocking on Fincher's door with Andrew Kevin Walker's screenplay for a grisly detective story titled Se7en (1995). The relentlessly grim story of two detectives (played in the movie by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) tracking down a serial killer who bases his killings on the seven deadly sins. The movie grossed more than $100 million domestically (over $300 million internationally). The chairman of New Line Cinema, Arnold Kopelson, originally refused to allow filming of the shocking climactic scene before Fincher convinced him otherwise. He argued that the scene was such a crucial part of Se7en, that 30 years later, someone flipping through the channels on late night TV would run to tell his friends about the "head in a box" movie he'd seen the night before -- it being the one crucial element that would stick in the minds of all who saw it. Along with Brad Pitt's statement that he would not shoot a different ending, the scene was filmed as they wanted.
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DreamWorks Pictures is looking to land David Fincher to direct the thriller "The Lookout". Talks are ongoing for the "Panic Room" helmer to board "Lookout", which has attracted such A-list talent as Sam Mendes, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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