David Fincher on his “gross and cool and wet and steampunk” adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Below the Sea.
It’s been fifteen years because it was first introduced that David Fincher could be tackling an adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Below the Sea for Disney. The venture didn’t transfer ahead, and Fincher defined why whereas talking with Letterboxd. Lengthy story brief, Fincher rapidly realized that Disney wasn’t on the identical web page.
“Look, I really wanted to do Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea because what we had in mind was really kind of gross and cool and wet and steampunk and all that,” Fincher mentioned. “However I received to do [Love, Death & Robots episode] ‘Bad Travelling’ on Netflix, and that scratched that itch. I used to be tremendous simply doing that. You possibly can’t make individuals be excited in regards to the dangers that you just’re enthusiastic about. Disney was in a spot the place they had been saying, ‘We need to know that there’s a factor that we all know learn how to exploit snout to tail, and also you’re going to need to examine these packing containers for us.’“
Fincher continued, “And I was like, ‘You’ve read Jules Verne, right?’ [Laughs] This is a story about an Indian prince who has real issues with white imperialism, and that’s what we want to do. And they were like, ‘Yeah, yeah, fine. As long as there’s a lot less of that in it.’ So you get to a point where you go, ‘Look, I can’t fudge this, and I don’t want you to discover at the premiere what it is that you’ve financed. It doesn’t make any sense because it’s just going to be pulling teeth for the next two years.’ And I don’t want to do that. I mean, life’s too short.” Certainly it’s. As a lot as I might have liked to have seen Fincher’s tackle Twenty Thousand Leagues Below the Sea, I can respect that he didn’t need one other terrible studio expertise after Alien 3.
Talking of Fincher, the long-awaited launch of Se7en on 4K Extremely HD will formally drop tomorrow. Our personal Chris Bumbray lately watched an IMAX screening of the remastered movie and was blown away revisiting the movie thirty years after its authentic launch.
