Gillian Flynn Talks Gone Girl Adaptation on Reddit

One of the coolest things David Fincher did on Gone Girl was keep Gillian Flynn on as screenwriter. Probably the powers that be wanted a dude. I don’t know, just a guess.  Here is what the talented Ms. Flynn had to say about the adaptation process:

“I read tons of screenplays and watched a lot of movies. Since my director was David Fincher, I read all the screenplays and rewatched all the movies—that was not bad homework. I also watched movie adaptations I really respected, like The Talented Mr. Ripley. Then I went to town with my book. I read it one last time; I listened to it on audio so it could wake up my brain in a different way, and then I didn’t look at it again—except to grab certain lines of dialogue—so I could let it become a movie.”

Source: Vanity Fair

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