Cutting a line between two Harrison Ford classics, The Fugitive and Presumed Innocent, Gillian Flynn’s unflinching murder mystery novel Gone Girl shot to the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list in 2012.
Now, the story of a man who becomes the key suspect in his wife’s death while still grieving for her is in the hands of one of modern cinema’s more successful dark dramatists: David Fincher. The director has twice before proven himself a master of the literary adaptation with the pitch-black satire of Fight Club and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
If he can draw on both of those aesthetics here, the often-heard question “Is it as good as the book?” might be gone, too.
