Brooke Bunny
David Fincher will be a mainstay of TV in 2015 by sounds.
The “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” helmer is teaming with James Ellroy to do a Los Angeles-set 1950s crime noir series for HBO titled “Shakedown”, says Deadline.
The show is “set in the tabloid world and the underbelly of Los Angeles in the 1950s and centers on a real-life private detective.”
Firstly, Fincher looks to direct the HBO Pilot “Living on Video”.
The series, says The Wrap, fixes on crew members who worked on music videos in the 1980s.
Fincher revealed he was developing a project based on his experiences as a music video director in a recent Playboy interview.
“Studios treat audiences like lemmings, like cattle in a stockyard. I don’t want to ask actors or anyone else on a movie to work so hard with me if the studios treat us as though we’re making Big Macs. ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ is not a Big Mac. ‘Gone Girl’ is not a Big Mac. This TV show I’m doing about music videos in the 1980s and the crew members who worked on them, or this other show, a Sunset Boulevard set in the world of soaps — they’re not Big Macs. I don’t make Big Macs,” said Fincher.
