David Fincher to Direct Full Season of HBO's UTOPIA
David Fincher has taken on a huge series commitment at HBO, and he's set to direct every episode of HBO's adaptation of the British show Utopia. It looks like his 2015 is going to be completely booked. As a huge fan of the director, I think it's pretty awesome that he's attached himself to a project like this.
The original UK series is a crime thriller drama that follows "a small group of people who find themselves in possession of the manuscript sequel of a cult graphic novel called The Utopia Experiments which is rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the last century. This leads them to be targeted by an organization known as The Network, which they must avoid to survive. Using the manuscript, they must uncover the meaning hidden in its pages before the disasters depicted become reality."
Fincher talked to The Guardian about the project and why he was willing to spend his whole year bringing it to life.
"I like the world of it. I like the characters – I love Dennis's [Kelly, creator of the UK show] honesty and affinity for the nerds. I mean, I've always been a bit of a junior conspiracy theorist cos I don't have time to connect them all! But it's nice to see that somebody has." He is planning to direct the whole series, which will keep him busy for most of 2015, and is not looking much beyond that. There is no long-term plan (at least not that he's confessing to). "Oddly enough," he says, "I did a remake of a literary adaptation, then I did a remake of a television show. Now I'm doing a literary adaptation [and then remaking another show]. I don't know: the pattern is not clear to me exactly what it is that I'm doing. But I'm sure it'll be illuminated for me. Your job is context. I'm just a hamster on a wheel!"
This seems like it will be a perfect project for Fincher, and I have no doubt that he's going to deliver an insanely great series.
Via: /Film