Sometimes I forget David Fincher directed Alien 3. Most of the time, he would like to forget it, too. One of the great things about Fincher is how open he is about his catalog. His movies are picked by hand, and he puts everything he has into all of his projects. His insane attention to detail is the stuff of legends and something we can emulate (in moderation). Still, Fincher became an auteur by jumping from the studio system after hating everything about making his first film, Alien 3. He's come a long way since then, with a few classics under his belt and a lot of influential and incredibly entertaining work as well. In a new interview with Vulture, Fincher said his father’s original Mank script “was [about] a great writer obliterated from memory by this showboating megalomaniac,” which he only realized was “limited in scope” after his nightmare experience directing Alien 3. He went on to talk about his awful experiences on Alien 3 without even mentioning the movie by name, which is quite something! Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 2 November, 2020