Loder: You obviously have an affinity for the serial-killer genre. I'd imagine you don't want to make a career of it, but you are considering making a film version of "Torso," aren't you?
Fincher: I'm interested in that. I'm not interested in the serial killer thing, I'm interested in Eliot Ness. I'm interested in the de-mythologizing of Eliot Ness. Because, you know, "The Untouchables" was only two or three years of the Eliot Ness story. There's a whole other, much more sinister downside to it. And so that's of interest to me. We want to make it the "Citizen Kane" of cop movies. I also want to make a CG animated movie. And I've been talking about doing a remake of a movie I really liked in the '70s, "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud." Ever see that? And there's a World War II movie that Robert Towne is writing that I really love. All kinds of stuff.
Loder: How did you become involved with "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"?
Fincher: I read a script many, many years ago. It's a really beautiful story, but I didn't feel that it was makeable in that incarnation. I told Brad [Pitt] about it years ago, and then it was being offered to him, but they didn't have a director, so they brought it to me, then I worked on it for about four years, and now it's finally at a place where the studio wanted to throw the kind of money that it would take to execute it. So here we are in New Orleans, making it.
Loder: Is there any kind of movie that you've always wanted to do that you haven't done yet? Is there a musical in your future?
Fincher: I'd love to do a musical! I really would. I wanted to do "Evita"! I really did. I thought it was a nasty musical — I liked that about it. It's sort of perverse.
A Fincher musical? I don't know about that. A CG animated movie? Hmm. I hope he follows up Button with something he's never done before. A World War II movie by Fincher would be really cool to watch. Plus I looked up the Peter Proud film and it's the exact same plot that a few weeks ago popped into my head when I was thinking of ideas for a script. Lame.
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Haven't I long said he should do a musical? I liek the idea of him doing a musical though Evita, seems an odd choice though I suppose it oculd suit his early music video style being so stylized (and he had worked with Madonna a lot before then...) More and more now I'm wishing he had gotten his hands on Sweeney Todd.
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