David Fincher

A Star Wars directing gig would have been fun for him, but ultimately he figured it was a lot of pressure for something that might not even turn out.

Watch vintage interviews with Edmund Kemper, the real-life serial killer featured on Netflix’s hit new series ‘Mindhunter.’

That headline is probably the most unlikely (and totally bonkers) series of words you’ll read this week. (Hopefully. It’s only Wednesday.) Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of The Game; to celebrate, we ran a feature on what is perhaps David Fincher’s most underrated film. As it turns out, that film reportedly inspired Ben Affleck’s screenplay for The Batman, which Matt Reeves tossed out when he replaced Affleck as director of the Dark Knight’s upcoming solo adventure.

20 years after its first release, David Fincher’s thriller about a man trapped in a mysterious game seems even more prescient, and even more powerful.

Interviewing serial killers takes special nerve, and David Fincher and Charlize Theron will test yours with Netflix’s Mindhunter. See for yourself with a new sneak peek from the Jonathan Groff series that bears a very … uh, intimate title.

It seems like we get a new Netflix original every week, but there’s something special in Mind with David Fincher and Charlize Theron. Become a Mindhunter with our first trailer for the October premiere, as Jonathan Groff and Fringe alum Anna Torv start profiling serial killers.

After months stretching into years of personnel changes, rewrites, unceremonious departures, rumors, hearsay, and scuttlebutt, World War Z’s long-delayed sequel may finally be good to go. Paramount’s been on the hunt for a director for some time now after the original film’s helmer Marc Forster chucked up the proverbial deuce back in 2013. Industry types have bandied about David Fincher’s name as the most probable replacement, and a big lead feature about newly crowned Paramount head Jim Gianopulos in The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Fincher’s in, this is real, and it’s all happening. In the parlance of Entourage, “David Fincher’s doing the movie!”

It’s been pretty slow-going for David Fincher-Charlize Theron Netflix drama Mindhunter, but an official premiere may at last have been uncovered. The new Fincher-directed series starring Jonathan Groff and Fringe alum Anna Torv has reportedly booked its fall debut.

Remember David Fincher? You know, the guy whose name shows up in the credits for House of Cards? He directed movies once upon a time in 2014, but the genre maestro has been taking it relatively easy since Gone Girl shocked and tantalized audiences a few years ago. As he’s busied himself with TV work (he recently shot the Mind Hunters pilot for filmmaker-poacher Netflix), he’s batted around the occasional film offer without making any hard commitments. There were rumors of a grand adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea floating around for a while there, but those dissipated when Fincher revealed that he was being courted to helm the sequel to zombie spectacle World War Z. One of those two things has now come to pass, and here’s a hint, it’s not the one that takes place underwater.

You think you know movies. You definitely know that the critics are raving. Now prepare yourself for ScreenCrush’s latest and greatest series: Movies. (With Farts.) The title pretty much says it all. We take a classic scene from cinema history, and make it a little … funky.