David Fincher Extends Netflix Deal, Now Expires in 2027
David Fincher Extends Deal With Netflix & Says Streamer Allows Him To Take “Risks” https://t.co/EunTVLGIxd pic.twitter.com/EV13gpconT
- The Playlist (@ThePlaylistNews) January 23, 2024
- Praises Netflix for Letting Him Take Risks: “I don’t feel like I’m deviating from my previous approach when working with Netflix. I make them take the same type of risks that I have made others take in the past,” said Fincher. “‘Fight Club’ was a huge risk. People lost their jobs because they agreed to produce this film. ‘Benjamin Button?’ People at the studio would read the script and go, ‘Oh, this movie will be like a big comforting hug.’ I clarified, ‘Yes, a big comforting hug about death!’ Then 35 million dollars were spent on visual effects, including probably 18 to paste Brad Pitt’s head on actors in wheelchairs so that the star of our film would look like he was 85 years old…”
- On Mindhunter's Risk: “Maybe ‘House of Cards’ wasn’t a huge risk, but ‘Mindhunter’ was. A procedural on behavioral sciences that would be neither ‘X-Files,’ nor ‘CSI,’ nor ‘Criminal Minds,’ but would function as the portrait of a guy who loses his virginity in the world of psychosexual sadists? We couldn’t complete the trajectory, but it was a gamble. An expensive series, too. Very expensive. We went as far as we could until someone finally said to us, ‘It makes no sense to produce this series like this, unless you can reduce the budget, or make it more pop, so that more people will watch it.’ We did not want to change our approach so, respectfully, they told us that they were drawing a line under it. That’s it: I always take a slight step aside from what is expected of me. Otherwise, I’m not interested.”
SRC