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David Fincher Says He Met With Warner Bros. to Direct ‘Harry Potter’ and Told the Studio ‘I Want It to Be Kind of Creepy’
David Fincher says he met with Warner Bros. to direct ‘Harry Potter,’ telling the studio, "I want it to be kind of creepy."
But during a recent interview on behalf of the upcoming 4K re-release of his breakthrough film “ Seven,” Fincher revealed one franchise for which he was considered that didn’t move forward after he pitched his take on the material: “ Harry Potter.” I want to do something that looks a lot more like ‘Withnail and I,’ and I want it to be kind of creepy.’” He said Warner Bros. had something more traditional in mind for their series of adaptations of author J.K. Rowling’s best-selling young adult books about the eponymous wizard. Among the upcoming projects he’s associated with that are in development, Fincher is supposedly working on an American adaptation of Netflix’s explosively popular Korean series “Squid Game,” as well as a miniseries prequel to “Chinatown” that he co-wrote with the film’s late screenwriter, Robert Towne.
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