Boots Riley Fires Back at David Fincher’s ‘Confused Take’ on Hollywood Strikes

The “Sorry to Bother You” writer-director says Fincher has a “distorted worldview”

Boots Riley, a Black man, strikes a pose in colorful pants, coat, and tall hat, wearing sunglasses as he kneels on the boardwalk. A few people are behind him, including a small truck that reads "Stacy's" on the side.
Boots Riley (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for Stacy's Pita Chips)

“Sorry to Bother You” writer-director Boots Riley is among those taking issue with director David Fincher’s comments on the ongoing strikes by Hollywood writers and actors, delivered in a Venice Film Festival press conference for Fincher’s new Netflix thriller, “The Killer.”

On the platform formerly known as Twitter, Riley quoted a line from Fincher’s press conference, speaking about “The Killer”: “My hope is someone will see this film and get very nervous about the person in line behind them at Home Depot.”

Riley wrote that this is a “distorted worldview,” but that it’s “propagated in many of [Fincher’s] films & his confused take on the strike.”

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