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David Fincher currently works with Netflix under a deal reached in 2020, but he was actually one of the first big talents to work with Netflix since Netflix Originals were created. Here’s a look at this catalog of titles on Netflix and what’s coming next.
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker got his first big movie break in 1992 with the third Alien But that ordeal quickly soured the director to make big, studio-controlled features, leading him to make a series of projects that seemed tailor-made for the director’s love of the macabre and skewed more into the realm of suspense. genre film crime.
Those features included Seven, Fight Club, The Game, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattooand girl is gone. Fincher finally found his comfort zone working with Netflix and has since developed/directed a handful of movies and TV episodes, with the last two being his. man and the next murder thriller The murderer, being some of the most exciting originals they have in their lineup of features.
List of David Fincher movies and series on Netflix
house of cards
Guy: Series
Fincher’s role: producer manager
First released on Netflix: February 1, 2013
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Fincher first made waves at the streaming giant with his mature political drama house of cardswhich had Kevin Spacey playing a conniving politician, Frank Underwood, rising from his position as whip to president in a fictionalized version of Washington DC.
The show’s popularity even earned Fincher a Primetime Emmy statue for his directing work on the first season.
Later, a wave of sexual misconduct and assault allegations led the series to pivot towards the wife of Spacey’s character, played by Robin Wright, who took on Underwoods’ political ambitions on the show and ultimately ended its run in 2018 after of 73 episodes.
mind hunter
Guy: Series
Fincher’s role: producer manager
Released on Netflix: October 13, 2017
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The next series Fincher helped put together for Netflix was mind hunter, a dramatized version of true events that led the FBI to interview and analyze established mass murderers who had been captured and imprisoned in the United States. Hoping they could learn about patterns to catch future killers before they racked up an even more gruesome body count.
This division of the FBI helped inspire the Hannibal Lecter book series that was adapted into feature films such as Silence of inocents and hunter of men.
The three main cast members of the show are Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Hannah Gross. Although the serial killer series centering on a team of early FBI profilers was said to be extremely popular among true crime buffs, the drama ended with the second season.
More recent, Fincher reaffirmed the consensus that a third season wouldn’t be in the cards and would likely be too expensive for a crime drama, and the audience wasn’t where it needed to be to continue.
love, death and robots
Guy: Anthology series (animated)
Fincher’s role: producer manager
Released on Netflix: March 15, 2019
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A mature animated anthology series that dips into the waters of the horror and sci-fi genre that is the brainchild of Fincher and dead pool director Tim Miller, which originated as a pitch for a revival of the ’80s cult classic Heavy metal but ultimately it did not materialize. Over time it was renamed years later as love, death and robots and landed on Netflix.
A bunch of the short stories from that original pitch were used for the retconned show, including the lone Fincher-directed episode, Bad trip.
So far, three volumes have been released on Netflix, with a fourth confirmed.
man
Guy: Movie
Fincher’s role: Director
Released on Netflix: November 13, 2020
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The film starring Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried from a script originally penned by the director’s own father, Jack Fincher, would narrate a dramatized version of Orson Wells’ iconic 1941 film script. Citizen Kane.
Biting social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz is rushing to finish a script that was influenced by the writer’s own observations while mingling with elite Hollywood circles during the 1930s that included William Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper magnate reputed to be Charles Foster Kane. be based directly on
After strong critical reactions, the Hollywood-set biopic was expected to do well during awards season. It earned an impressive 10 Academy Award nominations in 2021 (including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress). man only left with technical awards for its production design and cinematography.
See
Guy: Series (Documentary)
Fincher’s role: Producer
Released on Netflix: December 6, 2021
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Movie lovers examine the movie moments that thrilled, stumped, challenged, and forever changed them in this collection of visual essays.
Is it black enough for you?
Guy: Documentary film)
Fincher’s role: Producer
Released on Netflix: November 11, 2022
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Follow the history of film noir, focusing primarily on the 1970s, with new and archival interviews with many of the era’s key players.
New David Fincher projects coming soon to Netflix
The murderer
Guy: Movie
Fincher’s role: Director, Producer
Release on Netflix: November 10, 2023
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Fincher’s next big production is The murdereran adaptation of the French graphic novel written by Alexis Nolent (aka Matz) and illustrated by Luc Jacamon.
The screenplay was written by screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who previously worked on the landmark 1990s crime thriller. Seven and Fincher’s recent animated segment for love, death and robots. The murdererThe score for will be composed by Oscar winners and frequent collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who have been creating music for all of their feature films since the 2010s. The social network.
It also has an interesting cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Sophie Charlotte, and Tilda Swinton. While there were some glimpses of footage in a recent video outlining upcoming 2023 releases, we’re still waiting for a solid trailer or Netflix trailer to get a real idea of what’s in store.
The official tagline for the film reads as follows:After a fateful near miss, a killer battles his employers and himself in an international manhunt that he says is not personal.
Untitled Chinatown Prequel
Guy: Series
Fincher’s role: Producer
Release on Netflix: to be confirmed
Image: Paramount Pictures
Fincher is also producing a new series related to the beloved Los Angeles film noir. Chinatownwhich was directed by Roman Polanski in 1974 and starred Jack Nicolson as a clever private detective who stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy involving the city’s water supply and a host of suburban land grabs by mysterious gamblers who They want to kill him. before connecting all the dots.
In this case, the show acts as a prequel to those events and likely means we’ll see a younger version of Jake Gittes. Fortunately, it also brought in screenwriter Robert Towne (Mission Impossible) from the jump to help develop the series after writing the original film. They have also had the help of writer Matthew Carnahan (Current situation, Mosul), who had worked in World War Z (Fincher had been hired to direct a sequel) and dark waters.
It’s unclear if Fincher will direct episodes, but since he’s jumped to directing episodes on most of his Netflix series, we think it’s a good bet that he’ll attempt to direct at least one episode.
Given Fincher’s established working relationship with Netflix, which is growing stronger by the minute, we shouldn’t be terribly surprised if his next feature film ends up on the streaming service alongside future TV releases.
What Fincher projects have you enjoyed or are you excited to see coming out in the near future?