MTV caught up with David Fincher when promoting “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” and of course got a payload of stories out of it including news on the “Chef” sex comedy with Keanu Reeves and his animated, “Heavy Metal” project.
So what’s up with the “Fight Club” musical that we’re still sort of convinced is a long-running gag between Fincher and friends? Apparently it’s too cost prohibitive.
“It’s too expensive. I really don’t know. I’ve talked to [director/stage director] Julie Taymor and she sort of talked me down. I talked to [producer] Scott Rudin about it. I wanted to get him involved. He just laughed.”
Hmm, ok, if it’s a gag, he still sounds pretty serious about it,but either way, it sounds like it’s not happening. So did Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails write any music for it that will go to waste then? Unfortunately not.
“No. He’s interested in it. He wanted to know more about what it was going to be. I saw it as being like a rock show — a lot of projection, a lot of computer-generated imagery, a lot of conveyor belts. It was really cinematic but really twisted.”
As for what’s next and how his experience was with directing ‘Benjamin Button,’? Fincher says dryly and not without a quiet dig, “I’ve just spent five years pushing a rock up the Paramount mountain and I’m perfectly happy to do a short for an anthology and some television commercials”