David Fincher may direct PANIC ATTACK, options novel

We shared posters and a trailer for David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It looks as though Fincher may have another project lined up based on a book. According to Vulture, Fincher has optioned Jason Starr‘s crime novel Panic Attack, which tells the story of “a New York shrink who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim’s vengeful accomplice.” The screenplay will be written by Starr and produced by Fincher under his new company, Panic Pictures. 

Starr has written a number of crime novels. His tenth book, The Pack arrives on shelves next week and is about "werewolf stay-at-home dads run amok on the Upper West Side." Starr is no stranger to Hollywood adaptation. Four of his novels are currently in development, including his 2008 thriller, The Follower, with Bret Easton Ellis adapting.

It is not known if Fincher will direct this film or hand it off to someone else. He has a pretty busy schedule. As you know he's set to direct 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for Disney, and Angelina Jolie is interested in having him direct her in Cleopatra. Fincher also is directing the TV pilot for for House of Cards that stars Kevin Spacey. I am hopeful that he will sign on to direct the other two films in the Millenium trilogy.  The deciding factor will be how attached he is to the source marterial. We will have to wait and see.

Here is Panic Attack's synopsis from Amazon:

"A bungled burglary sparks Starr’s darkly humorous crime thriller. Carlos Sanchez wasn’t expecting anyone to be home, much less have an entire clip emptied into him as he reached the top of the stairs of the brownstone he breaks into in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens. The gun-wielding psychologist, Adam Bloom, is almost equally surprised—instead of being hailed as a hero for defending his wife and daughter in his own home, the media vilify him as a crazed vigilante for using all 10 bullets. Even worse, the sociopathic Johnny Long, going along with his pal Carlos for an easy score, decides to make the Blooms pay in more blood for the incident after he escapes into the night by targeting the wife and daughter.”

Does this sound like a film you would like to see Fincher direct?