Mar 15 2010David Fincher Completing Transition from Fight Club to Chess Club
Someone down at Hollywood HQ must have finally realized 1993's Searching for Bobby Fischer is not, in fact, about Bobby Fischer, and you know what that means: time for a Bobby Fischer movie!
Variety reports Columbia has signed David Fincher on to direct a biopic on the anti-Semitic chess phenom, telling Fischer's life story leading to his world championship battle against Boris Spassky. The name of this film? PAWN SACRIFICE. So dramatic. "Don't you see now, Bobby?! Your SOUL is the pawn! And the game is your LIFE! Checkmate!" (sample dialogue)
Fincher's shift from edgy thrillers like Seven and Fight Club to the likes of the 165-minute Curious Case of Benjamin Button, his upcoming Facebook film, The Social Network, and now a chess film, has me wondering: when did this guy get so fucking boring?
Reader Comments
1. Sam - March 16, 2010 8:12 AM
No one wants to buy your Chinese knock-off shit. Go away. Please. Speaky english? No numba one! Numba 10! You go now!
A movie about chess? Seriously? If the projector broke, and people ended up staring at a blank screen for two plus hours, would they know the difference?
2. fatblood - March 16, 2010 2:11 PM
Um, I'd say David Finchers gonna get pretty interesting before he takes a break to get boring on this one. He does have the Animated "Heavy Metal" Movie that is going to be amazing.
3. BlackMetalChocobo - March 16, 2010 4:15 PM
Yeah, was going to say exactly what fatblood said. Heavy Metal Fuck Yes. As a long-time subscriber, I cannot wait to see what Fincher does with HM. Blood and tits are nooooot boring!
4. frank - March 16, 2010 6:02 PM
Hahaha WHAT? He's doing Heavy Metal? That's insane. I thought Matt Stone and Trey Parker already rebooted that.
5. wut - March 16, 2010 9:15 PM
Why is the "anti-semetic" descriptor relevant? I love it when people take irrelevant information and try to draw away from what he really is, and that is the greatest chess player in history.
wow you piss me off.
6. Lamont - March 17, 2010 2:56 AM
He probably had a kid.