Now picture them dancing.
MTV has an interview with David Fincher in which he reveals, amongst other things, his dream of making a musical out of his film Fight Club. As in, “They sing! They dance! They fight! They sing some more!”
Fincher says he likes the idea (he’s apparently spoken about it before), but thinks it would be too expensive to put together. Here’s what he had to say:
Fincher: It’s too expensive. I really don’t know. I’ve talked to [director] Julie Taymor and she sort of talked me down. I talked to [producer] Scott Rudin about it. I wanted to get him involved. He just laughed.
MTV: Did Trent Reznor ever write music for it?
Fincher: No. He’s interested in it. He wanted to know more about what it was going to be. I saw it as being like a rock show — a lot of projection, a lot of computer-generated imagery, a lot of conveyor belts. It was really cinematic but really twisted.
Well, his vision of it makes sense, but if we’re totally serious here, it would make more sense to do Fight Club the opera than a musical. And Trent Reznor aside, it would have more of a chance of getting done.
On another note, I don’t know what to think of his statement that Julie Taymor talked him down from the idea. Taymor, as you may recall, is directing a stage musical of Spider-Man and word has it that the budget is growing bigger every second. So I don’t know whether to feel smug that she’s apparently seen the error of her ways in doing this kind of project or if I should just let my heart sink at the thought of the coming Spider-Man: The Debacle Musical.
Read the rest of the interview with Fincher here. He talks a great deal about his current film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which opens on Christmas Day.
