It's been called one of the most violent comic books ever created, and now Frank Miller's "Hard Boiled" may finally be seeing its way to the big screen.
At one time developed as a starring vehicle for Nicolas Cage with none other than David Fincher directing, MTV News can exclusively reveal that the acclaimed three-issue miniseries is once again inching closer to a Hollywood reality, this time under the tutelage of "Spirit" producer Deborah Del Prete.
"We're talking about [it]," Miller declared to us at NY Comic Con. "I've got a really unusual way I want to do it." Read more...
Two months ago, we reported on "Fight Club" director David Fincher’s ambitious plans to take his macho classic to the Great White Way, with music and book by NIN front man Trent Reznor no less. "I want at the 10-year anniversary to do 'Fight Club' as a musical on Broadway," the director enthused at the time. "I love the idea of that."
So do we. Jared Leto, on the other hand? Well, he just wants to destroy something pretty.
"I think that's the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life," the "Fight Club" star snidely remarked when we asked if he’d heard of the idea. "Could you imagine?" Read more...
Benjamin Button, the titular hero of David Fincher's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story of the same name, has a rare condition which forces him to age backwards.
Thank goodness, then, that our technology goes in the "right" direction, "Benjamin Button" co-star Tilda Swinton said – or else there'd be no Benjamin Button at all.
"The programs they developed for that are just going to blow everything out of the water," the recent Oscar-winner gushed of the technology involved in aging and de-aging star Brad Pitt, who will play Button throughout the nearly 80 years of his life. "I think it's going to be extraordinary." Read more...
When I got the chance to chat recently with David Fincher, I had a laundry list of projects I wanted him to weigh in on. Thankfully the astounding director of "Zodiac" and "Seven" spent the better part of an hour happily dispensing new info on his future slate. The first part of the interview, in which he discusses "Zodiac," can be read by clicking here.
Now the rest of our chat is up, and among the highlights of part two of the David Fincher interview:
-- He's planning on turning "Fight Club" into a musical.
-- His planned film version of "Torso" may star Matt Damon as Eliot Ness.
-- He's planning a series of CGI 3-D films based on "Heavy Metal." Read more...
Like anyone would expect from an auteur like Fincher, the filmmaker had an expanded vision of his serial killer flick "Zodiac" in mind when it came to editing. That extended version is now seeing release on DVD in the form of a director's cut, and we spoke to Fincher to get the low-down on it. Watch one of the bonus features from the disc below, and then click here to read our conversation with the acclaimed helmer discussing the result.
A thirty-mile-long alien spaceship with mysterious origins is set adrift in our Solar System by an unknown intelligence. What is it? Who built it? What is it doing in our corner of the galaxy?
Morgan Freeman thinks he's just the man to find out.
"I play the captain of the spaceship Endeavor that is charged with rendezvousing with this thing from outer space to find out what it is [and] what its intentions are," Freeman said of his role in "Rendezvous with Rama," the celebrated story from the mind of science-fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke.
Freeman, who has been trying to get the movie made since early in the millennium, said it's still on track to happen, (with "Fight Club" director David Fincher at the helm) - it's just taking a little while longer than expected. "It's a very intellectual science fiction film, a very difficult book to translate cinematically." Freeman said. "[At least] we have found it very difficult to translate, to get ready for film." Read more...
