People were probably saying the same thing with The Social Network, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Everyone had reasonable objections to these projects but seemed to underestimate Fincher. He likes a challenge, likes working within the machine and subverting it a little. This isn't what I would want necessarily for Fincher to make but I have had the exact same gut-reaction to a bunch of his films. I thought The Social Network would be of little interest to me. I ended up, like most people, thinking it was a bona fide masterpiece. If Fincher does pursue this, it'll be because he thinks he can do something interesting with it.
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