David Fincher Movie Updates

Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions look to be moving forward with a World War 2 sequel.

Brad Pitt is looking to his Seven and Fight Club director to potentially come in and rescue the project.

Oscar-winner Christian Bale, who has played Batman and Moses, is about to take on another iconic figure: Steve Jobs.

Ben Affleck is in negotiations to play the lead role in David Fincher‘s Gone Girl, a development that will seal the Fox project pic as Fincher’s next film to direct.

Ed Zwick is in talks to helm Pawn Sacrifice, the drama that will star Tobey Maguire as troubled chess wiz Bobby Fischer.

Mean Creek writer-director and indie darling Jacob Aaron Estes is on board to helm IOU for Media Rights Capital. David Fincher, who seldom lends his name to projects he isn't directing, is producing the thriller.

Angela Workman is developing a script for an untitled indie about Dorothea Lange, the American photographer whose Depression-era images were said to inspire The Grapes of Wrath.

And now Vulture hears that Fincher has just optioned Jason Starr’s 2009 macabre crime novel Panic Attack, about a New York shrink who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim's vengeful accomplice. We're also told that Fincher has set Ocean’s Eleven and Tower Heist screenwriter Ted Griffin to ad ...

I'm told the director conversation right now is with David Fincher, who just got a Best Director Oscar nomination working with Cleopatra producer Scott Rudin, and who is working with Rudin on the Stieg Larsson novel adaptation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, also at Sony Pictures.

Favreau is set to directMagic Kingdom, which the 44-year-old filmmaker described as a family fantasy adventure that will tap into the vintage Disney creations that loomed so large in the imagination of his generation. Favreau said that Fincher (expected by many to be a strong Oscar contender for The Social Network) will direct ...

New Films International has acquired U.S. and international theatrical distribution rights to Derek Magyar's "Flying Lessons" and Connie Stevens' "Saving Grace B. Jones." New Films Cinema will release both films in U.S. theaters.

The makers of "Seven" are teaming to reincarnate "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" for Columbia Pictures. David Fincher is attached to direct the new adaptation of the Max Ehrlich novel, which will be penned by Andrew Kevin Walker. Fincher will produce with Michael De Luca.