Part of my excitement for David Fincher‘s upcoming adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is that it seems to be a mix of his dark crime thriller Se7en and his sprawling drama Zodiac. One of his upcoming films will now have a touch of the former, as Deadline reports that the scribe of his Morgan Freeman/Brad Pitt film, Andrew Kevin Walker, has been brought on to take a stab at the script for Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
This news comes just days after his Curious Case of Benjamin Button scribe Eric Roth boarded another one of his potential directing projects, Cleopatra with Angelina Jolie. But Leagues is an interesting choice, as the Disney production will certainly skew the most family-friendly project Walker (and Fincher for that matter) will be a part of, after the writer has worked on features such as 8MM, Sleepy Hollow and The Wolfman.
Fincher recently confirmed his version of the Jules Verne classic will be around 70% CGI and then writer Scott Z. Burns stated, while it will be “very, very true to the spirit of the book,” there will actually be “very little” of it in the script and he has a “really cool idea for the relationship” shared between the three main characters, those being Captain Nemo, Professor Pierre Aronnax, and Ned Land.
There isn’t much more to go on, but I’m very much looking forward to Fincher change things up a bit with this ambitious 3D project. We’ve seen the magic that Martin Scorsese can do with the technology, practically reinventing its usage in Hugo, and with an equally meticulous director like Fincher, it should be a treat. Add in his Se7en scribe, and this project ranks up a bit higher than Cleopatra for me.
What do you think about Andrew Kevin Walker taking on Fincher’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?