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It's okay to be nervous. Our first instinct when a beloved book is turned into a movie is to get up on our hind legs and anticipate all the ways that Hollywood will get it wrong.
Two summers ago, Gillian Flynn's bruise-black thriller Gone Girl was everywhere you looked. And for good reason. It was the rare page-turner that balanced beautiful writing, breathless pacing, and booby-trap plot twists that landed with the brass-knuckle force of a sucker-punch.
Was Ben Affleck too smug—and let's face it, too on-the-nose—to play the callow Nick Dunne? Was Rosamund Pike too icily ethereal and untested to play his missing wife, Amy? And how would the film handle the novel's just-short-of-preposterous Big Reveal? Well, the answers are no, no, and...masterfully. Fincher and Flynn's film gets just about everything right.
I can't guarantee that the film's ending will work for everyone (it was always my one nit to pick with Flynn's novel). But I will say this: Anyone who loved Gone Girl the book will walk out of Gone Girl the movie with a sick grin on their face. You can stop being nervous.
It's okay to be nervous. Our first instinct when a beloved book is turned into a movie is to get up on our hind legs and anticipate all the ways that Hollywood will get it wrong.
Two summers ago, Gillian Flynn's bruise-black thriller Gone Girl was everywhere you looked. And for good reason. It was the rare page-turner that balanced beautiful writing, breathless pacing, and booby-trap plot twists that landed with the brass-knuckle force of a sucker-punch.
Was Ben Affleck too smug—and let's face it, too on-the-nose—to play the callow Nick Dunne? Was Rosamund Pike too icily ethereal and untested to play his missing wife, Amy? And how would the film handle the novel's just-short-of-preposterous Big Reveal? Well, the answers are no, no, and...masterfully. Fincher and Flynn's film gets just about everything right.
I can't guarantee that the film's ending will work for everyone (it was always my one nit to pick with Flynn's novel). But I will say this: Anyone who loved Gone Girl the book will walk out of Gone Girl the movie with a sick grin on their face. You can stop being nervous.
Things are about to get exciting again.
