David Andrew Leo Fincher was born on August 28,1962 and is an American film director.
54 Facts About David Fincher
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In 1986, David Fincher co-founded Propaganda Films, a film and music video production company.
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David Fincher then directed numerous music videos, most notably Madonna's "Express Yourself" in 1989 and "Vogue" in 1990, both of which won him the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction.
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David Fincher made his feature film debut with Alien 3, and gained acclaim with Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, and Zodiac.
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David Fincher received greater success and Academy Award for Best Director nominations for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, and Mank.
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David Fincher directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Gone Girl.
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David Andrew Leo Fincher was born on August 28,1962, in Denver, Colorado.
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David Fincher's mother, Claire Mae, was a mental health nurse from South Dakota who worked in drug addiction programs.
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David Fincher's father, Howard Kelly "Jack" Fincher, was an author from Oklahoma who worked as a reporter and bureau chief for Life magazine.
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David Fincher was fascinated with filmmaking from the age of eight, when he began making films with an 8mm camera.
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David Fincher directed plays and designed sets and lighting after school, and was a non-union projectionist at Varsity Theatre, as well as a production assistant at the local television news station, KOBI in Medford, Oregon.
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David Fincher supported himself by working as a busboy, dishwasher and fry cook.
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David Fincher directed TV commercials for many companies including Levi's, Converse, Nike, Pepsi, Revlon, Sony, Coca-Cola and Chanel, although he loathed doing them.
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Between 1984 and 1993, David Fincher was credited as a director for 53 music videos.
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David Fincher referred to the production of music videos as his own "film school", in which he learned how to work efficiently within a small budget and time frame.
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In 1990,20th Century Fox hired David Fincher to replace Vincent Ward as the director for the science-fiction horror Alien 3, his film directorial debut.
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David Fincher briefly retreated to directing commercials and music videos, including the video for the song "Love Is Strong" by the Rolling Stones in 1994, which won the Grammy Award for Best Music Video.
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Shortly, David Fincher decided to make a foray back into film.
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David Fincher read Andrew Kevin Walker's original screenplay for Seven, which had been revised by Jeremiah Chechik, the director attached to the project at one point.
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David Fincher expressed no interest in directing the revised version, so New Line Cinema agreed to keep the original ending.
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David Fincher hired Seven screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker to contribute and polish the script.
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In 1999, David Fincher was shortlisted by Columbia Pictures, as one of the potential directors to helm Spider-Man, a live-action adaptation of the fictional comic-book character of the same name.
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David Fincher's pitch featured an older, experienced version of the titular character in his adult years and the post-adolescent portion of his life as a photographer and his crime-fighting double life as a vigilante, with a more grounded, character-driven and drama-oriented tone and direction.
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David Fincher later said of his pitch, "I went in and told them what I might be interested in doing, and they hated it".
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In 2001, David Fincher served as an executive producer for the first season of The Hire, a series of short films to promote BMW automobiles.
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Five years after Panic Room, David Fincher returned on March 2,2007, with Zodiac, a thriller based on Robert Graysmith's books about the search for the Zodiac, a real life serial murderer who terrorized communities between the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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David Fincher first learned of the project after being approached by producer Brad Fischer; he was intrigued by the story due to his childhood personal experience.
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In 2008, Fincher was attached to a film adaptation of the science-fiction novel, Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke Fincher said the film is unlikely to go ahead due to problems with the script.
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David Fincher's next project was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's eponymous 1923 short story, about a man who is born as a seventy-year-old baby and ages in reverse.
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David Fincher directed the 2010 film The Social Network, a biographical drama about Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg and his legal battles.
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In 2011, David Fincher followed the success of The Social Network with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a psychological thriller based on the novel by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
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Scott adds, "Mr David Fincher creates a persuasive ambience of political menace and moral despair".
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In 2012, David Fincher signed a first look deal with Regency Enterprises.
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In 2013, David Fincher served as an executive producer for the Netflix television series House of Cards, a political thriller about a Congressman's quest for revenge, of which he directed the first two episodes.
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David Fincher won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the first episode.
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That same year, David Fincher signed a deal with HBO for three television series - Utopia, Shakedown, and Videosyncrazy.
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David Fincher directed Gone Girl, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel of the same name, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.
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David Fincher even met with Flynn to discuss his interest in the project before a director was selected.
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Between 2016 and 2019, David Fincher directed, produced and served as showrunner for another series, Mindhunter, starring Holt McCallany and Jonathan Groff.
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Producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner said that David Fincher would begin directing it in June 2019.
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In July 2019, Fincher signed on to direct Mank, a biopic about Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz.
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David Fincher served as an executive producer on a series titled Voir for Netflix.
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In late 2019, David Fincher began developing a television prequel to the 1974 film Chinatown with its screenwriter Robert Towne, and he has expressed interest in eventually making a third season of Mindhunter, which was put on indefinite hold in 2020.
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David Fincher suggested that Panic Room is a combination of "Rear Window meets Straw Dogs ".
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David Fincher has cited graphic designer Saul Bass as an inspiration for his own film title sequences; Bass designed many of them for prominent directors including Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick.
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David Fincher admits he has autocratic tendencies and likes to micro-manage every part of the production.
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David Fincher prefers shooting with Red digital cameras, under natural or pre-existing light conditions rather than using elaborate light setups.
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David Fincher is known to use computer-generated imagery, which is mostly unnoticeable to the viewer.
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Similarly, in his music videos, David Fincher appreciated that the visuals should enhance the listening experience.
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David Fincher would cut around the vocals, and let the choreography finish before cutting the shot.
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David Fincher has explored themes of martyrdom, alienation and dehumanization of modern culture.
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David Fincher even used a remix of Reznor's Nine Inch Nails song "Closer" in the opening credits of Seven.
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David Fincher has worked with film editor Angus Wall since 1988, who has worked on seven of his films, five of which he has edited.
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David Fincher married model Donya Fiorentino in 1990 and divorced in 1995.