David Fincher can officially do no wrong. I appreciate that other opinions may be available, but his resumé is frankly astonishing. Seven, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Game, The Social Network, Benjamin Button. What we’ve seen so far of his re-working of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo looks mightily impressive as well.

Impatient lot that we are, talk quickly turns to next projects and although he has a lot of irons in the fire, Fincher may next turn his attention to a remake of Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, itself based on a Jules Verne novel about one Captain Nemo and his futuristic proto-submarine the Nautilus. The original film was most celebrated at the time for the impressive finale, with a giant squid doing battle with the Nautilus, though as we might expect, those effects have since become exceedingly dated. Quite what Fincher will do with the material is anyone’s guess.

Tone-wise, an interesting dimension is that Andrew Kevin Walker (who scripted Fincher’s “Seven” and cameoed as a neighbour in Panic Room) looks set to work on the script and although he has never returned to the high water mark of Seven, his work since has remained within the horror/gothic milieu (The Wolfman, Sleepy Hollow, 8mm), which would surely mean a departure from the none-more-Disney stylings of the original.

Fincher may sign up for a reworking of Cleopatra instead, though either way this is going to wind up as a second remake on the trot for him, which seems unusual for so individualistic and unique a director. We will let you know as soon as we do. In the meantime, check out the trailer below for the original 20,000 Leagues. Can you see Fincher doing this?

Source: Deadline.

Two of the producers behind this year’s surprise horror hit, The Last Exorcism, are back with another project.

Eli Roth and Eric Newman, along with one of the production companies behind ‘Exorcism’ (StudioCanal), will make thriller Psycho Killer.

Zombieland producer Gavin Polone will be making his directorial debut in this tale of a mysterious masked murderer who has a young female police office in his trail, seeking revenge for one of his victims who happened to be her highway patrolman husband.

The film has been penned by writer Andrew Kevin Walker, the creator of 1995’s huge serial killer-themed hit, Seven. Psycho Killer is only his second full-length produced piece of work in over a decade (he was one of the writers onboard for last year’s remake of The Wolfman).

As reported by Variety.

David Fincher announced today that his next project after the Aaron Sorkin scripted Facebook movie The Social Network will be an adaptation of the Max Ehrlich novel The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. Better still he’ll be teaming up with Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker and producer Michael De Luca.

It’s been fourteen years since Seven catapulted the dark visions and tight direction of Fincher to an ebullient audience and to have Fincher and his team concentrating on a supernatural thriller is an awesome prospect.

Heat Vision at THR have this synopsis:

“Proud” centers on a college professor who begins having recurring dreams and nightmares and, realizing they are images of a past life, decides to search out the source of the visions. With his girlfriend in tow, he discovers a woman and her grown-up daughter who are keys to his past life.

I’m a huge Fincher fan and was one of the only people I know who loved Benjamin Button, so to have two Fincher projects to look forward to makes me very happy indeed.

No news on casting yet, but we’ll bring you all the news on this one.