David Fincher been a flop since mank (2020) omg what do you mean he is working on the US remake of squid game 🫤
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David Fincher, speaking about selecting Tom Burke to play Orson Welles in “Mank”:
“Tom’s not a big kid, Tom’s a man, and he has certain physical similarities,” Fincher says. “But the thing that I kept coming back to was his voice was beautiful. His voice is very hypnotic, and we gave him recordings of Welles and encouraged him. Tom had the power. Tom had the gravitas. Tom had the presence, and he could definitely develop the voice.”
Fincher says that by the end of filming, he would hear Burke over the phone or in voice-over and swear he was listening to Welles himself.
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Aaron Sorkin:
“When it gets to the point where you’re working on a script with the director, it’s usually the last thing that happens before you go into production.
You were my boss on The Social Network. What is the dynamic of being the boss when your [late] father [who wrote Mank] is the employee?”
David Fincher:
“It’s not easy. We had a very odd and collegial relationship. We were very much about honesty about everything.
My father alternated between having great confidence in me and my abilities, and not. Also being protective of my feelings, and the downside, and all of that stuff.
But generally speaking, he made no bones about the fact that he thought Se7en was kind of rubbish. Or he felt at least that it was overtly nihilistic and therefore limited in it.”
Aaron Sorkin:
“I’m sorry, I have to ask you, and I don’t want to turn this into a father-son...”
David Fincher:
“No, it’s fine, it could be therapy.”
Aaron Sorkin:
“How does your father say to you that he doesn’t like Se7en? When does that conversation happen?”
David Fincher:
“He saw it at the premiere and he was really disturbed by it. (…) He was extremely upset.
Part of it is because the movie is upsetting. For a lot of people, it’s a hard thing to divorce oneself from the effect of a movie on you, and your feeling about it.
But eventually he got to a point where he said: "Look, it’s really effective and affecting."
"I’m uncomfortable with the litany of violence that is visited on the people." But he was also respectful of the fact that it all happened off camera.
He said something about like: "I hope this isn’t a reflection of your upbringing." And I’d say: "No, except for the movies that I saw."
And then he really, really, disliked Fight Club. I gave him the script and he said that there was nothing funny about it.
At first he said: "I don’t know why you’re making this." And I said: "Because I think it’s funny." He was even more distraught.
Then he saw the movie and didn’t like it. And a year or two later, he said: "Okay, I understand now what you were doing."
So at the same time that he was saying "I prefer you not make this kind of entertainment", he could also take a step back.”
Source: The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast: Mank with Director David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin (Ep. 286)
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