Director David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” adaptation has released a new poster for the film, adding a little more mystery to the thriller.
The film starring Ben Affleck (Nick Dunne) and Rosamund Pike (Amy Dunne) is about a husband whose life turns upside-down after his wife goes missing on their fifth wedding anniversary.
Nick quickly turns into the main suspect, but Amy’s husband is adamant he had nothing to do with her disappearance. As Nick attempts to prove his innocence, he finds out there may be more to his wife’s alleged kidnapping as things are not what they seem.
“Gone Girl” is set to open in theaters on Oct. 3, but the film will premiere during the New York Film Festival on Sept. 26. Author Gillian Flynn recently spoke about the process of adapting her hit novel onto the big screen to Film Society.
Flynn was a newcomer to the script writing process, but had always been interested in film. According to Hit Fix, her father was a film professor who encouraged her interest in the craft. However, the adaptation process proved to be especially challenging for “Gone Girl.”
“The structure of the book poses particular challenges for adaptation,” Flynn told Film Society. “It's a very interior novel and plays a lot with time and chronology. It isn't a book you necessarily read and then think you can just slap it onto a movie screen. I had to take a step back and disassemble the book and put it back together again. To me that was part of the fun. It took on a second life.”
Flynn also admitted she wants couples to see the “Gone Girl” together, but it’s not because she wants to capitalize on “date night.”
“My fondest dream is that it will be the date movie that breaks up couples nationwide,” the author told Film Society. “Maybe people will walk out of there and think, ‘Maybe not. I don't know if I know you well enough…’ The movie is about how well you can possibly know one another.
“We're so steeped in pop culture and so steeped in different roles. How can you possibly combine with another person and have that truth exist in a relationship. The [story] definitely plays off of that idea.”
