HBO Orders David Fincher's 1980s Set Music Video Comedy ' Video Synchronicity' To Series

David Fincher hasn't set his next feature film, and you know what? Who cares. As long as he's telling stories, I'm happy, and working with a longform canvas on HBO is pretty damn exciting. At some point this year, the director will gear up and helm all the episodes of the first season of "Utopia," but that's not all he's got brewing at the network. He's also developing a 1950s crime noir series with James Ellroy called “Shakedown,” and a series set in the world of music videos. And there's good news about the latter.

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HBO has given a series order to "Video Synchronicity." Fincher will be directing episodes of and executive producing the 1983-set half-hour comedy about the world of making music videos in the 1980s, a milieu he knows very well. In fact, the premise is not unlike Fincher's personal arc, following a college dropout who dreams of making a sci-fi epic but winds up shooting music videos...