[Spoiler Alert If You Haven't Watched The Season Premiere Of American Horror Story: Freak Show!!!] Well, that was unlike any trip to the circus we've ever taken. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's American Horror Story: Freak Show made its highly anticipated debut with a huge episode that included an old-fashioned sex tape, a bearded lady, and a David Bowie musical number. For its biggest season yet, co-creator Murphy talked to EW for an epic postmortem interview that covers all the big twists (and, of course, Twisty) and clues to season five! Entertainment Weekly: Let’s start with the opening credits. They’re animated this year. What made you want to switch it up? Ryan Murphy...
- 10/9/2014
- by Tim Stack
- EW - Inside TV
David Fincher could be planning to make a New York-set crime thriller. The Social Network director has bought the rights to David Starr's novel Panic Attack which centres on a psychiatrist and family man's murder of an intruder in his city home, Vulture reports. Panic Attack depicts the ensuing media circus and the family's attempts to deal with the dead intruder's stalking best friend Johnny Long. Ocean's Eleven (more)...
- 6/3/2011
- by By Zakia Uddin
- Digital Spy
NY Mag has learned that director David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club) has optioned Jason Starr's 2009 crime novel "Panic Attack," with hopes of bringing it to the big screen under Fincher's recently formed company, Panic Pictures. "Panic Attack" revolves around a New York psychiatrist who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim's vengeful accomplice. Ted Griffin (Ocean's Eleven, Tower Heist) has already been hired to adapt the book. Starr said that great villains make a good thriller and "Panic Attack" has a great villain. "This guy Johnny Long [the revenge-minded cohort stalking the psychiatrist and his family], he's a very clever, Ripley-esque psychopath," said the author.
- 6/2/2011
- WorstPreviews.com
I’ve been saying all week that David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo looks almost like it could be a sequel to Se7en and now comes word from Vulture of a new attachment that likewise could be related to another of his previous works. This time his forgotten 2002 film, Panic Room.
Fincher has optioned the rights to Panic Attack, a novel from Jason Starr about “a New York shrink who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim’s vengeful accomplice.” Yup, that definitely sounds like a movie in Fincher’s pulpy wheelhouse (Se7en, The Game) rather than his more serious historical re-tellings (Zodiac, Social Network) and as I say seems to kick off where Panic Room left off.
Ocean’s Eleven and Matchstick Men scribe Ted Griffin is working on the screenplay.
Author Starr said;
“…the thing about ‘Panic Attack...
Fincher has optioned the rights to Panic Attack, a novel from Jason Starr about “a New York shrink who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim’s vengeful accomplice.” Yup, that definitely sounds like a movie in Fincher’s pulpy wheelhouse (Se7en, The Game) rather than his more serious historical re-tellings (Zodiac, Social Network) and as I say seems to kick off where Panic Room left off.
Ocean’s Eleven and Matchstick Men scribe Ted Griffin is working on the screenplay.
Author Starr said;
“…the thing about ‘Panic Attack...
- 6/2/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
David Fincher is already considering his post-Girl With The Dragon Tattoo career, having optioned the movie rights to crime novel Panic Attack. No, it’s not a sequel to Fincher’s own Panic Room, but a book by Jason Starr that follows a New York psychiatrist who kills an intruder in his home, and finds himself consumed by a media frenzy. Not only that, but the psychiatrist has to deal with Johnny Long, the vengeful friend of the dead intruder who starts stalking his family. According to author Starr, Long’s “a really...
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- 6/2/2011
- by Josh Winning
- TotalFilm
Probably some of the best perks that come with being one of the hottest directors in Hollywood is that you get your pick of scripts to work with. Now it seems that David Fincher may have found something that he would like to work on. According to Vulture, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director has optioned for a crime novel, titled Panic Attack. The Jason Starr novel will be adapted by Ted Griffin (of films like Ocean’s Eleven, Matchstick Men, Rumor Has It, Tower Heist and the short-lived television show”Terriers”).
The one thing that separates “Panic Attack” from the rest of the crime novels is that it is much more than just your average crime novel,its about a gun-wielding New York psychologist named Adam Bloom who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim’s vengeful accomplice. But Johnny Long,...
The one thing that separates “Panic Attack” from the rest of the crime novels is that it is much more than just your average crime novel,its about a gun-wielding New York psychologist named Adam Bloom who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim’s vengeful accomplice. But Johnny Long,...
- 6/2/2011
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
Director David Fincher has optioned for “Panic Attack,” a crime novel written by Jason Starr. According to New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, the film will be part of Fincher’s recently formed production company, Panic Pictures. Screenwriter Ted Griffin is set to write the adaptation. Griffin wrote the screenplays for films such as “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Tower Heist.” Here is the official synopsis from the novel: Dr. Adam Bloom has the perfect life. He’s financially secure and lives in a luxurious house with his wife, Dana, and their twenty-two-year-old daughter, Marissa, a recent college graduate. Late one night, his daughter wakes him up and says, “Somebody’s downstairs.” Adam uses his gun to kill one of the unarmed intruders, but the other escapes. From that moment on, everyone’s life in the Bloom household will never be the same. Adam doesn’t feel safe, not with the other intruder out there somewhere,...
- 6/1/2011
- LRMonline.com
Last year, David Fincher signed a development deal [1] with Media Rights Capitol that would cover the financing of a couple films, and the new step in moving forward with pictures under that deal is the formation of a company called Panic Pictures. Perhaps appropriately, the first property optioned for the company is a thriller called Panic Attack, which Ted Griffin (Ocean's Eleven, Tower Heist) will script. Vulture [2] has the details of the option, and says the book is about "a New York shrink who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim's vengeful accomplice." Jason Starr wrote the book, and tells Vulture, ...the thing about Panic Attack is that there’s a really compelling antihero in this guy Johnny Long [the revenge-minded cohort stalking the psychiatrist and his family]... He’s a very clever, Ripley-esque psychopath. Will David Fincher direct? No idea at this point. He has The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo to finish,...
- 6/1/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
We shared posters and a trailer for David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It looks as though Fincher may have another project lined up based on a book. According to Vulture, Fincher has optioned Jason Starr‘s crime novel Panic Attack, which tells the story of “a New York shrink who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim’s vengeful accomplice.” The screenplay will be written by Starr and produced by Fincher under his new company, Panic Pictures.
Starr has written a number of crime novels. His tenth book, The Pack arrives on shelves next week and is about "werewolf stay-at-home dads run amok on the Upper West Side." Starr is no stranger to Hollywood adaptation. Four of his novels are currently in development, including his 2008 thriller, The Follower, with Bret Easton Ellis adapting.
It is not known if Fincher...
Starr has written a number of crime novels. His tenth book, The Pack arrives on shelves next week and is about "werewolf stay-at-home dads run amok on the Upper West Side." Starr is no stranger to Hollywood adaptation. Four of his novels are currently in development, including his 2008 thriller, The Follower, with Bret Easton Ellis adapting.
It is not known if Fincher...
- 6/1/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
We won’t be seeing David Fincher‘s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo until December 21st, but the first teaser that premiered this weekend blew pretty much all of us away, and the marketing blitz is continuing with a few posters cropping up online recently. So while we (thankfully) won’t be devoid of him for the rest of 2011, his future seems pretty open.
We know that he’s scheduled to direct 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for Disney, and that there’s also been talks of doing another version of Cleopatra with Angelina Jolie. Also take into account the pilot for the TV series House of Cards that stars Kevin Spacey and that he might also direct the other two installments of the movie trilogy that Dragon Tattoo will be starting, and you see that he isn’t slowing down. Now, we have another project to add to the pile for him.
We know that he’s scheduled to direct 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for Disney, and that there’s also been talks of doing another version of Cleopatra with Angelina Jolie. Also take into account the pilot for the TV series House of Cards that stars Kevin Spacey and that he might also direct the other two installments of the movie trilogy that Dragon Tattoo will be starting, and you see that he isn’t slowing down. Now, we have another project to add to the pile for him.
- 6/1/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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