1. Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl.
16 Facts About Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn's works have been translated into 40 languages, and by 2016, Gone Girl had sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
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Gillian Flynn has an older brother, Travis, who works as a railroad machinist.
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However, Gillian Flynn identifies as a feminist, and has defended her choice to write female characters who defy conventional expectations of women as inherently nurturing or morally virtuous.
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Gillian Flynn's second novel, Dark Places, follows a woman who begins to question whether her incarcerated brother was truly responsible for the murder of their family during the Satanic panic era of the 1980s, when she was a child.
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Gillian Flynn adapted the novel into a successful 2014 film directed by David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.
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An avid reader of comic and graphic novels when she was a child, Gillian Flynn collaborated with illustrator Dave Gibbons and wrote a comic book short story called Masks.
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Alongside Marti Noxon, Gillian Flynn co-wrote and served as an executive producer for HBO's 2018 adaptation of Sharp Objects, for which she received nominations for the Primetime Emmy and the Writers Guild of America Award.
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In 2014, it was announced that Gillian Flynn would write the scripts for an HBO adaptation of the British series Utopia.
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Gillian Flynn wrote all eight episodes and served as the project's showrunner.
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Gillian Flynn wrote the screenplay for the 2014 film adaptation of Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher, for which she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and which was nominated for the Writers Guild of America awards, as well as the Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Gillian Flynn co-wrote, along with filmmaker Steve McQueen, the film adaptation of the ITV series Widows, Starring Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, and Liam Neeson.
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Gillian Flynn is working on her fourth novel, which is set to be published by Penguin Random House.
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Gillian Flynn is developing a limited series for HBO based on her novel Dark Places.
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Gillian Flynn retains the rights to the novel, with Brett Johnson and Guerrin Gardner joining her as co-showrunners, co-creators, and writers.
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Gillian Flynn married lawyer Brett Nolan in 2007, having met him during graduate school at Northwestern.