David Fincher is a busy man. He’s developing a stateside adaptation of the Channel 4 drama Utopia with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn. He executive produces Netflix's successful House of Cards, going into its third season. And if that weren’t enough, the director is now looking to add classic crime noir to his full plate.
The Playlist reports that Fincher and author James Ellroy are in talks with HBO for a series set in Los Angeles “in a similar 1950s milieu (like Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential).” The two creators have a history. Fincher almost adapted Ellroy’s novel The Black Dahlia into a five-hour, $80-million miniseries with Tom Cruise. When the project collapsed (and Brian De Palma made it into a movie), Fincher moved on to the similarly themed Zodiac.
Fincher seems to be finding more creative freedom in the realm of television, as he has nothing else lined up for film after Gone Girl is released on October 3. We’ll happily wait patiently for Fincher’s hard-boiled murder mystery, which can’t come out soon enough.
