Another Thursday, another Jeff Sneider rumor. This time he’s reporting on how Netflix is trying to court David Fincher to direct an American remake of the ultra-popular South Korean series “Squid Game.”
No word yet on whether Fincher will sign on, but they want him to tackle this project “badly”, per multiple sources. For the time being, Fincher has “The Killer” being released in November, but he has no other projects, that we know of, currently lined up after that one.
Word to Netflix: Let’s not do this. “Squid Game” is already very popular and was basically a sanitized version of “Battle Royale” — don’t get me wrong, a very entertaining one at that. If Netflix wants Fincher to keep busy and pile up some projects, then just let him make another season of “Mindhunter.”
Fincher has worked on a few remakes in his career. He directed the U.S. version of the ultra-popular Swedish film/novel “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” — that turned out to be a very good adaptation. Whereas, a couple of years ago, he tried to remake Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” with Ben Affleck, but, last we heard, that project has been shelved.
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