On a stage that included a best-selling author, an Oscar-winning actor/director, a billion-dollar filmmaker, a Tony-winner and, oh yeah, the breakout bone-chilling actress at the center of the film that just screened, nearly all of the audience’s attention and affection still went to director David Fincher after “Gone Girl” premiered for press and industry members at the New York Film Festival.
Not that he didn’t deserve it; the psychosexual mystery thriller’s cold blood is filled with Fincher’s DNA.
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Ben Affleck, who plays Nick Dunne, the husband and potential murderer of his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike, the aforementioned bone-chiller), sang Fincher’s praises the loudest when one reporter asked each cast member to talk about what they learned from the director.