David Fincher Originally Wanted Ned Beatty To Play John Doe In 'Se7en,' Talks Unmarketable 'Fight Club' And More

In case you missed it, the first reviews are rolling in for David Fincher's "Gone Girl," and in short, he's pretty much getting raves. The movie is being released by 20th Century Fox, but fifteen years ago, Fincher was having very different conversations at the studio. He had just wrapped "Fight Club," and during a recent career retrospective conversation at BAFTA (via Screen Daily), he revealed just how nervous the suits up top really were about the dark, violent and cynical film.

"When we cut the movie together and showed them the final thing is the first time everyone realized they were going to get fired. It’s a great cocktail story about doing this movie that’s so dark and twisted and then they see it and go, oh my god, what’s the poster here? How do we get people to see this?" Fincher said. “The marketing department shit all over the movie and said: ‘Men don’t want to see Brad Pitt with his shirt off and women don’t want to see him bloody so...