It looks like Fight Club director David Fincher will be taking an extremely hands-on role with HBO’s remake of Utopia, a British conspiracy thriller created and written by Dennis Kelly. The Guardian writes that Fincher intends to direct the entire series, which will likely consume much of his 2015 schedule. Utopia follows the fans of an underground graphic novel, after they discover the author had created a secret manuscript.
David Fincher will direct entire ‘Utopia’ thriller series
“I like the characters – I love Dennis’s honesty and affinity for the nerds,” Fincher told The Guardian. This will not be Fincher’s television debut. Although the director is best known for films like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,The Social Network, and the upcoming Gone Girl, he has served as executive producer for Netflix’s award-winning House of Cards.
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Most Popular
Most Popular
- Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
- The iPhone Duo is a messy, expensive, good time
- Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving struck and killed a man crossing I-80
- Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
- PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today
