David Fincher shooting with Viper

[Slimothy]

i worked on this project in San Francisco and in L.A.. It was pretty amazing. One night we shot in the Tenderloin with one 10 k light up., Rain birds working and Jake Gyllenhaall did 72 takes of one shot. He was pissed. It was a run down the street in the rain, no dialogue. He and David did not get along.....

wow. Why'd he have him do 72 takes?!!!

 

[rawfa]

Fincher spent like 2 hours shooting the soap for Fight Club. He must have some sort of Kubrik sindrome.

 

[Filmjunkie677]

Oh yeah, he's a perfectionist.

He did the same thing for Se7en, 100 takes here, 100 takes there... lol.

And that was film... At least on Zodiac, he's shooting digital, so 72 takes doesn't seem so bad.

I feel for Fincher's editor....

 

[Cheesesailor77]

Directors Label (or any other) should do a "Work of director..." kind of thing with comercial directors too. I'd love to see David Finchers' early stuff...him and a bunch of other cool comercial directors.

Directors label puts commercials on their DVDs too (most music video directors do commercials at some point) and considering David Fincher was a premier music video director of the late 80's, i don't think that's why he doesnt have a dvd.

 

[rawfa]

Yes, he did stuff for Madona, Aerosmith, etc. It would be awesome to see a Work of Director with him