Fincher Directing '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'

Disney's reboot of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is not dead. Far from it. The Hollywood Reporter says the studio is negotiating with David Fincher to direct the new film, with Bourne Ultimatum co-writer and The Informant! adapter Scott Z. Burns set to write the project. This won't be the same movie McG was fired from, though, and there right now no reference to Captain Nemo in the title. That was one thing McG had struck upon, and the franchise would ultimately follow that character. What might surprise you about this pairing is that Fincher approached the studio about taking it over, saying he wanted to try something unlike the films he's known for. There will probably not be a serial killer in 20,000 Leagues, so that's a start. If you've been following Disney over the past year, you know that when the studio replaced the popular Dick Cook with Rich Ross, it sort of tightened the purse strings. The movement now is away from middle-budget movies like Wild Hogs and Surrogates, especially in light of Surrogates and Old Dogs delivering nothing, and to enormous projects like Pirates of the Caribbean and those very cheap High School Musical-range movies. This would obviously be in the first group, but it appeared that Ross prefered reinventing the comapany's answer to Star Wars, The Black Hole. Now it's clear that it was more the presentation of the remake that Ross didn't like rather than spending money on a new 20,000 Leagues. This will apparently be "in the vein of Star Wars or The Empire Strikes Back." I would have preferred a steampunk version, but that's fine. Fincher, I think, deserves the benefit of the doubt. It's not an imminent project, because Burns still has to write it. So, that gives Fincher time to work on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which is the dark kind of thing we generally associate him with.

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[Will]

Fincher is just following the trend of other edgy directors like Tim Burton, M. Night, and Spike Jones into the lucrative children's market. Can't say I blame him...

I like this move. The original 20,000 Leagues is quite creepy, and I think Fincher could re-imagine it quite stunningly and with great success.

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