2006’s Sharp Objects announced Gillian Flynn as a major talent on the literary thriller scene. It was no surprise that she built on the success of that critically acclaimed and best-selling debut with Gone Girl and Dark Places, both turned into feature films already. But it was her first book that HBO deemed worthy of…
Toward the end of the first episode of Sharp Objects, a teenage girl tells her half-sister that, “Mama says I’m incorrigible.” Her tone winks with mischief, her words bright with a quicksilver menace. She’s wearing a prim, floral-patterned dress, her mother’s living doll (as she has called herself only moments before)…
Nothing proves the summer TV landscape has shifted quite like debuting some Emmy bait in the wake of Independence Day. And Sharp Objects, the HBO adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel of the same name, proves itself an early contender for next year’s awards. Showrunner Marti Noxon deftly interprets and…
While you’d be forgiven for thinking that the story of a betrayed woman getting elaborate revenge on her cheating husband is a pretty common trope, some stories are more similar than others. And some, as though we needed reminding, can spur lawsuits.
Actress Patricia Clarkson has done her share of television; heck, before breaking through as a film actress in the late 1990s, she even co-starred in a network legal drama, the short-lived, ahead-of-its-time Murder One. But the small-screen part of her career is almost entirely defined by one Emmy-winning guest star…
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Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn is all over Hollywood at the moment, penning screenplays, making deals, and having her back catalog combed over for potential projects to adapt. Now, Deadline is reporting that HBO has snatched up an adaptation of her debut novel, Sharp Objects, out of Netflix’s hands, securing the Amy…
A TV adaptation of Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s first novel, Sharp Objects, has been in the works in Hollywood for a few years now, with Buffy The Vampire Slayer writer and UnREAL co-creator Marti Noxon attached to executive produce. Now, Variety is reporting that the series has taken a huge step forward in its…
Now that Hollywood has put at least a token effort into adapting all three of Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s so-far published novels, its hit-hungry executives are voraciously moving on to the author’s short fiction in their search of new and buzzworthy material to adapt. To that end, and after what Variety is…
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Despite the high concentration of Oscar winners (Charlize Theron, who also co-produced) and Emmy nominees (Christina Hendricks) on the poster, Dark Places is the definition of a B-movie. (It would definitely play at the bottom half of a double feature with the last Gillian Flynn movie adaptation, Gone Girl.) French…
David Fincher’s reign as the Shonda Rhimes of HBO might end even before it begins following news of budgetary troubles on his in-development series Utopia, one of Fincher’s two HBO series now reportedly in peril. Deadline reported that Utopia, Fincher’s adaptation of a British drama about a mysterious graphic novel…
This summer, Mad Max: Fury Road co-stars Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult transition from the bright badlands of the post-apocalypse to some Dark Places. In the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s second novel (Gone Girl was her third), Theron plays Libby Day, a woman with a traumatic childhood that has consumed her…
Rooney Mara is in talks to star in David Fincher’s adaptation of the UK series Utopia for HBO, /Film reports. (This isn’t based on any official confirmation, but on a tweet by The Wrap’s Jeff Sneider, so take it with as large a grain of salt as you like.) Mara previously worked with the director on The Social Network…
Now that the beginning of the end upon is us, Mad Men news and theories about the fate of Don Draper—and just about every other character on the show—will be clogging news feeds for weeks to come. But what of the actors who play them?
Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn has signed on to co-write a heist thriller for 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen. The thriller is based on the British miniseries Widows, about a team of four armed robbers who are killed in a failed heist attempt and their widows, who team up to complete the job.…
Gillian Flynn, author of the best-selling novel Gone Girl and screenwriter of David Fincher’s film adaptation, thinks there could be another movie about her damaged lead characters, Nick and Amy Dunne. She told the New York Daily News, “It could be really fun a few years from now to pick it up and see what those crazy…
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Having seen their most recent creative relationship become a great success, Gone Girl’s David Fincher and Gillian Flynn are next set to reteam for Utopia—an HBO series that differs from the reality show of the same name, in that people want to watch it. And now there’s even greater reason to anticipate it: On the…
