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09Nov2009

David Fincher Reincarnates 'Peter Proud'

DateMonday, November 9, 2009 at 12:03PM
Everything old is new again for David Fincher. He's brought in Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker to adapt the 1975 novel The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, which was also turned into a film that same year.

The Hollywood Reporter says Fincher will set up shop at Columbia, co-producing with Michael De Luca. Proud is a college professor who begins having strange nightmares that appear to include images from a previous life, so he starts to investigate what might be causing them. One of the nightmares involves murder - Murder! - and, at least in the movie, Margot Kidder.

This journey eventually leads him across the country to the mysterious woman he's been seeing in his dreams, but what does it mean? What does it all mean?

It sounds like a particularly Fincherian concept, one fraught with plenty of heavy psychology. I wonder if he'll keep it contemporary or if we might see it set in the same era of the original. I have no preference either way, but it could influence at least the look of the film.

This film would follow, of course, The Social Network, the story of the guys responsible for Facebook. For the life of me, I can't figure out why Fincher is making that flick. Doesn't seem...grand enough somehow. But maybe Mark Zuckerberg has a panic room or something.

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