With the exception of a couple House of Cards
episodes, David Fincher returns this fall with Gone
Girl, his first directorial effort since 2011's The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It is yet another
thriller based on a popular novel. This time, the
director is adapting the works of Gillian Flynn and
he calls it the date movie that will "end 15 million
marriages". Star Ben Affleck has a slightly
different take on this story of a husband accused
of his wife's murder after she goes missing. He,
instead, believes it's the perfect date movie.
Check out three new photos featuring Ben Affleck
and Rosamund Pike as Nick and Amy Dunne, as
well as Neil Patrick Harris as Amy's ex Desi and
Carrie Coon, as Nick's sister Margo. Then read
on for more of what Ben Affleck has to say about
this dark thriller.
Speaking with Empire for their upcoming October
issue, Ben Affleck reflected on the powerful nature
of the story held within Gone Girl , and what that
might mean for couples who watch it together.
Gone Girl follows happily married couple Nick and
Amy Dunne, and what happens when the wife
goes missing. Ben Affleck offers these thoughts:
"I actually think this is the perfect date movie,
not because I think it'll result in divorce - I think
that's just David 's fantasy - but because it's the
kind of movie that a husband and wife could talk
about afterwards. I think a man and a woman
would have different takes on what happens. The
last time I was in a movie that I thought
polarised men and women in an interesting way
was Chasing Amy . That was quite some time
ago."
Co-star Rosamund Pike , seen in the photo above
working alongside director David Fincher , had this
to say about those aspects of the movie:
"That aspect of marriage as a con game, or
whatever. The idea that we perform a sort of
ideal version of ourselves that the other person
wants. We perhaps belie our true nature in order
to perform to the ideal. David and I talked a lot
about living in an age of rampant narcissism."
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