The 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.
