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- NewsGwynne Watkins
Reviewers Can't Stop Pointing Out That 'The Girl on the Train' Has a 'Gone Girl' Problem
The comparisons are not kind
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Emily Blunt Is Broken in the First 'The Girl on the Train' Trailer
When Paula Hawkins’ novel?The Girl on the Train became the publishing sensation of last year, a lot of people compared it to Gillian Flynn’s?Gone Girl. In this case, the gone girl in question is a nanny (Haley Bennett) who happens to work for the ex-husband (Justin Theroux) of the alcoholic and perpetually discombobulated Rachel (Emily Blunt).
- NewsGwynne Watkins
See an Exclusive First Look at the 'Amazing Amy' Art from 'Gone Girl'
When artist Kirk Van Wormer first spoke with director David Fincher about Gone Girl, the conversation didn’t go quite as he expected. “I have to tell you, the coolest and weirdest thing is to get a phone call from David Fincher saying ‘I’d like you to do some illustrations for my next movie,’ and then to find out that there’s no dead bodies or gore,” says Van Wormer. “I have a background in horror, so I was like, ‘Alright, I’m ready to go, David Fincher!’ And then he wanted cute, adorable chil
- NewsGwynne Watkins
Here Are All the Big Differences Between 'Gone Girl' the Book and 'Gone Girl' the Movie
—Amy’s teenage best friend, Hilary Handy, who had to transfer schools when she was accused of stalking Amy and pushing her down a flight of stairs. —Desi Collings’s patrician mother, who looks like Amy and with whom Desi has an unnervingly close relationship. —Rebecca, the young reporter for a crime blog called Whodunnit, who finds Nick drunk in a bar and gets exclusive video of him gushing about Amy.
- NewsGwynne Watkins
Ben Affleck Talks About 'Gone Girl' Nude Scene
One of the best-kept, least essential secrets about Gone Girl is now out in the open: Ben Affleck gets naked. At one point in the film (out Oct. 3), director David Fincher gives audiences a very brief, full-frontal glimpse of his star. MTV’s Josh Horowitz broached the subject with Affleck in a new interview, asking if he’d ever revealed so much of himself onscreen before.
- NewsGwynne Watkins
'Gone Girl': The First Reviews Are In — and Ben Affleck is Getting a Lot of Love
While Ben Affleck’s reputation as a director is unimpeachable, his acting career never fully recovered from early-‘00s stumbles like Daredevil and Gigli. Based on the bestselling mystery novel by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl tells the story of writer Nick Dunne (Affleck), who is blamed for the sudden disappearance of his wife Amy (Pike). Fincher has said that he cast Affleck as Nick because of his smile in press photos, which perhaps seemed like he was trying to telegraph something he didn’t reall
- NewsKevin Polowy
7 Things We Learned From David Fincher's Playboy Interview
David Fincher, the press-shy auteur behind such gems as Se7en, Fight Club and The Social Network, opened up to the magazine about a variety of subjects in the walk up to his latest release, a film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestseller Gone Girl (which, if our level of anticipation for the crime thriller starring Ben Affleck is any indication, could be another notch on the director’s gem belt). Like Fincher’s movies, his profanity-laced Playboy interview is at turns gut-busting and even stoma
- NewsMeriah Doty
About That 'Gone Girl' Ending: A Timeline of Quotes and Explanations
Director David Fincher caused some consternation back in January when a quote from him implied that his take on the twist-filled story — about a married couple (played by Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike) whose relationship takes a potentially murderous turn — had some third-act developments that deviated from the book.? Flynn, it should be pointed out, also wrote the screenplay. A recent New York Times profile on Ben Affleck? adds to a string of sometimes-conflicting statements made by the direct
- NewsMeriah Doty
Why Reese Witherspoon Isn't the 'Gone Girl' and 3 Other Secrets From the Fall Thriller
In the case of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 hit novel Gone Girl, Reese Witherspoon was the one at the door looking to nab the rights. The movie, due in theaters Oct. 3, stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, and not Witherspoon, who ended up producing. 1. Reese Witherspoon bowed out gracefully.
