“Not a pure Hollywood version”… 25 years ago this iconic and unexpected director could make a Harry Potter movie!

The history of cinema is littered with projects that remained precisely projects, never coming to fruition; treatment of the script that was finally thrown in the trash; Film productions in the abyss of development, a hell that never arose. Or, more simply, simple recycled ideas ipso facto by the studio.

David Fincher, like many of his colleagues, has also had his share of projects abandoned, such as the two planned sequels to his film Millennium: Men Who Didn’t Love Women. Or the long-rumored World War Z sequel.

“I don’t want to do a pure Hollywood version”

In a very recent interview DiversityOn the heels of the 4k release of his masterpiece Se7en (and which is also enjoying a limited release in the US), the filmmaker admits that he was approached by Warner Studios at the time and tasked with controlling the adaptation. Harry Potter literary franchise.

“I was asked to come to explain my vision and how to make a Harry Potter film” he says. “I remember saying, ‘I don’t want to do a pure Hollywood version. I want to do something more similar Withnail and me , And I want it to be a little scary.”

Warner wanted a family

And to emphasize that, in contrast, Warner played J.K. to the idea of ​​adapting Rowling’s novels, which were much more traditional and, above all, family. With two such diametrically opposed visions, a possible collaboration between the studio and Fincher would only be doomed.

Meanwhile, let’s remind you that Fincher has a western, Bitterroot, to direct for Netflix, the script of which was written more than fifteen years ago. The information is spread by several American media (including unofficial, but still reliable sites). What’s on Netflix) was not made official either by the representatives of the platform or the American filmmaker.