I’m sorry, but as much as I love David Fincher and will show up for anything he directs, he’s falling into a pattern right now of adapting airport novels for the big screen and the work just doesn’t seem nearly as challenging as his previous features. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, at one point, seemed like an interesting choice after the The Social Network, which, yes, was an adaptation, but let’s be honest, that wasn’t airport fiction brought to life on the big screen.
Now Fincher is prepping Gone Girl for October and the new word is his next film might bring him back together with his Dragon Tattoo star, Rooney Mara, for Red Sparrow, a novel I almost added to my Kindle until the previously attached director, Darren Aronofsky, abandoned ship. Well, that and a few reviews I read didn’t exactly turn me on to it either.
[amz asin=”B008J4PK86″ size=”small”]Here’s the synopsis:
In present-day Russia, ruled by blue-eyed, unblinking President Vladimir Putin, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency’s most important Russian mole.
As the action careens between Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and–inevitably–forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate’s game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC.
Fox is currently negotiating with Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle) to write the screenplay in hopes of locking Fincher and Mara in after that, though I have my doubts that Fincher is going to stick around should he deem Singer’s screenplay not up to snuff. [Deadline]
