PAWNs and DRAGON TATTOOs in David Fincher’s Future

Any project director David Fincher steps on board immediately jumps up a few notches on the anticipation chart, the guys is simply that gifted as a film maker.  Whether one of his films are among favorites (SE7EN and FIGHT CLUB) or just missed the mark on the side of heart-filled story-telling, the man has undeniable talent, and it is easy to see why he is considered one of the greater, American film makers working today.

So it interests me even more to hear about his next, two, possible projects.  According to Variety, Fincher has stepped in to direct PAWN SACRIFICE, a film about the life story of chess master Bobby Fischer.  If you don’t know much about Fischer’s lift outside of the chess world, you are missing half the story.  Of course, much of this came in his later years after Fischer became a recluse.  Unfortunately, PAWN SACRIFICE won’t be dealing with these years, but the years leading up to his 1972 match against Boris Spassky.

The other project Fincher is looking at is an American remake of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.  The original, Swedish film is currently playing at SXSW, and tells the story of a journalist and a teenage girl who team up to solve a 40-year-old murder.

Without Fincher’s name attached to either of these projects, one might easily discard them, a biopic of a chess champion and a US remake of a Swedish film that hasn’t even gotten a proper release in the states.  If it were just any director attached or even eying either of these films, they would be scoffed at and looked at as typical, Hollywood hack.  With Fincher on board, a man who takes any and every project with the utmost sincerity and puts every fiber of his talent on display, it propels these films way up in terms of their potential quality.

We’ll have to wait and see if we are right about this.