Have you read Gone Girl? If so you might agree with me when I say that the ending was pretty disappointing. Word on the street this morning, however, says that David Fincher and Ben Affleck's cinematic interpretation of the story will offer a different ending altogether. For me that can only be good news; I'm pretty sure I let out an exasperated 'ah, for f*ck sake!' as I turned the last page whilst sipping on a spiked iced tea down in southern Spain.
If you're of a different breed and LOVED how Gone Girl wrapped things up, this news might unnerve you. But to be honest, if you get that worked up over movie news, you need to get your shit together.
And it's not just the director Fincher who sought for this change, original scribe Gillian Flynn revelled in the opportunity to make some changes (she must know it sucked too). Here's what she said to Entertainment Weekly: "There was something thrilling about taking this piece of work that I’d spent about two years painstakingly putting together, with all its eight million LEGO pieces, and take a hammer to it and bash it apart and reassemble it into a movie... Ben [Affleck] was so shocked by it... He would say, 'This is a whole new third act! She literally threw that third act out and started from scratch.'"
Shocking, eh? Intriguing? Yes.
