David Fincher trying for Zodiac serial killer movie

DavidFincher.jpgThe greatness that can be David Fincher has been quiet for some time, but Empire is reporting that he has chosen his next project, which returns him to proven ground with a serial killer storyline:

the serial killer thriller Zodiac. Fincher’s film will be based on the hunt for the real-life psycho, The Zodiac Killer, who terrorised the San Francisco area over a period of twelve years (1966-1978) by recording at least 37 kills.

The Warner Bros/Paramount co-production (the same studios who nixed Button for being too expensive) will focus on the obsessive efforts of three people to bring Zodiac to justice, and the havoc it wreaked in their private lives. Fincher is currently merely in talks to direct the project, so very little is known about whether the film will focus on Zodiac…

It would be great news to see Fincher work again, especially if it’s going to be as dark as this story promises. There is one firmer appointment, and that’s to writing duties:

Jamie Vanderbilt, the screenwriter of the John Travola-Samuel L. Jackson dud, Basic, is currently knocking up the script, based on two books, Robert Graysmith’s Zodiac and its 2000 sequel, Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed.

I would like to see this come forward. Fincher can produce excellent movies, and the material is perfect for him. The danger though is an easy revisit to the style and substance of Se7en, although I don’t really see that happening.

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5 thoughts on “David Fincher trying for Zodiac serial killer movie

  1. Some interesting stuff on Zodiacs unciphered cipher/ which is deciphered

    In the 340 symbol cipher

    Draw a line connecting all three triangle and dot symbols. This is easy because there is only three of them

    Now draw a line through the two which are on the furthest to the right side of the page and connect it to the tiny dot in the backwards letter d at the end of the first line .

    The triangle you just created is called an isolisez triangle, look up the definition if you need more on that.

    The fact that Mr. X or Hunter wrote the tiny dot in the letter is quite a interesting topic at this point.

    I say HE WROTE THE TINY DOT ON PURPOSE AND THATS WHY ITS THERE

    Anyways lets go one further and take the code flip it 90 degres counterclockwise on your table. Now take the triangle and dot symbol which is now located at the top of the triangle in which you drew and use it as a center and one of the other two triangle and dot symbols as point b

    OK NOW USING A COMPASS

    Or anything you have to draw a circle

    draw a complete circle

    did you notice that the line of the circle passes directly through the small dot in the letter d

    which is the last letter on the first line .

    wow is your hair standing up , mine was.

    Now see , you like this well

    next is even better

    measure the area of the circle you just drew

    now draw lines enclosing the entire cipher

    now measure the area of the entire cipher.

    are they witin a hair ,

    good you passed z math 101

    Notice that next to each of the triangle and dot symbols that there is a backwards letter c also.

    It suprises me that the thousands of man hours that people worked on this that no one can see something soooo simmmmple Give me a holler Carl

  2. I have always had an avid interest in the Zodiac case, and as a freelance writer, have toyed with a screenplay. After several attempts I have successfully overcome the challenge of it being “unsolved…”

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