David Fincher talks Dragon Tattoo, Rama and 20,000 Leagues

David Fincher has spoken about a number of upcoming projects, including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , Rendezvous With Rama and 20,000 Leauges Under the Sea .

Talking to Collider whilst promoting the DVD release of The Social Network , Fincher spilt the beans on his future projects.

On his currently shooting Stieg Larsson adaptation, Fincher said: " Dragon Tattoo came along and I was like "Awww fuck man you cannot make another serial killer movie... You've got to fucking stop this.""

"[From the studio side] there was a hope that you could do a franchise movie for adults. And I thought "fuck man, I've been working my ass off for twenty years, hoping that someone would say something like this.""

"And I just thought, you get an opportunity to hopefully pave the way for something like that to happen... you know, that would be a great thing."

He went on to say that they had made the decision that "basically everything in the movie is pre-iPhone."

On Rendezvous With Rama , his long-gestating adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's expansive sci-fi epic, Fincher said: " Rendezvous With Rama is a great story that has an amazing role for Morgan Freeman who is an amazing actor and would be amazing in this thing."

"The question was can we get a script that’s worthy of Morgan and can we get a script that is worthy of Arthur Clarke and can we do all of that in an envelope that will allow the movie to take the kinds of chances that it wants to take."

"‘Cuz we want to make a movie where kids go out of the theatre and instead of buying an action figure they buy a telescope. That was the hope. The hope is, let’s get people interested in the fucking movie."

"So there have been people that have been interested in this idea and we have never been able to get a script.”

The director didn't say too much about his adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , but he did say: "Yeah, 20,000 Leagues will be 3D."

When pressed about whether the Jules Verne adap could be his next movie, Fincher tantalisingly replied: "I think that there's a lot of movies that could be my next film."

Matt Maytum is the former Editor of Total Film magazine. Over the past decade, Matt has worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.