Watch the trailer for the David Fincher film Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, and Neil Patrick Harris and featuring music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Photo/Video: 20th Century Fox
Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck in a scene from David Fincher’s Gone Girl. Source: Supplied EXPECT a stampede at the box office come October 2.
That’s what the movie critics are predicting when David Fincher’s Gone Girl hits the silver screen next month.
The film, adapted by Gillian Flynn’s 2012 best-selling novel, is already being praised as “the movie of its cultural moment”, with lead actors Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike delivering the performances of their screen careers.
For those who haven’t yet read the book, Gone Girl is about a husband, Nick Dunne (Affleck), who is suspected of murdering his wife, Amy (Pike). As the film begins, Amy has just gone missing from her home in Missouri on the couple’s fifth wedding anniversary and the police suspect she may have been murdered. As the search gets underway, viewers are taken back in time to the pair’s first meeting, their courtship and marriage.
Under the scrutiny of a growing media frenzy, the pair’s image of a perfect union starts to crumble and a web of lies, deceit and strange behaviour leaves everyone wondering if Nick is capable of murdering his beautiful wife.
Ben Affleck stars as a man under suspicion of killing his wife in Gone Girl. Source:Supplied
Fincher, who brought us Fight Club, Se7en, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network, worked from a closely shaped script by Flynn herself to recreate the best-selling thriller for the big screen.
Fincher himself promises to deliver the date movie to “end 15 million marriages” in 148 gripping minutes.
Not to mention, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Scoot McNairy and Missi Pyle also star in the R-rated flick.
If the early reviews are anything to go by, it’s not too often that film critics applaud a screen adaptation for living up to its page-turning original.
Will Ben Affleck’s performance in Gone Girl live up to the buzz? Source:Supplied
Here are just some of the early reviews:
• “Affleck, who has never been more ideally cast, delivers a beautiful balancing act of a performance, fostering both sympathy and the suspicion that his true self lies somewhere between shallow jerk and heartless murderer.” - The Hollywood Reporter
• “Gone Girl ranks with those other classics of malice, Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct. Only possibly better.” - People magazine
• “The movie is phenomenally gripping ... Fincher’s is a world of masks, misrepresentations, subtle and vast distortions. Truth is rarely glimpsed. Media lie. Surfaces lie.” - Vulture
Rosamund Pike is said to deliver a career-changing performance in Gone Girl. Source: Supplied • “David Fincher’s shockingly good film version of Gone Girl is the date-night movie of the decade for couples who dream of destroying one another ... Gone Girl has the impact of a body-slam, hitting home in every scary, suspenseful, seductive particular.” - Rolling Stone
• “Gone Girl is so full of reversals and so laden with irony that its attempts at a Husbands And Wives-style anatomy of a relationship under strain soon begin to founder.” — The Independent
• “Anyone who loved Gone Girl the book will walk out of Gone Girl the movie with a sick grin on their face.” — Entertainment Weekly
• “Fincher ... has pushed past the book’s page-turning suspense and zeroed in on its true nagging power: This is less a thriller than a psychosexual horror story.” - People magazine
Gone Girl opens in cinemas nationally on October 2.
Tyler Perry stars as Nick’s lawyer, Tanner Bolt, in Gone Girl. Source: Supplied View the original article here
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