• David Fincher's '20,000 Leagues' Is Dead; 'Dragon Tattoo' Sequel Gets New Writer

    The recent flurry of activity surrounding Gone Girl seems like a pretty good indication of where David Fincher's attention is focused right now. But that leaves the question of what's going on with all those other projects he had brewing as his possible follow-up to 2011's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. That includes the…

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  • Disney Pumps The Brakes On David Fincher's '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'

    Progress on David Fincher's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea has been pretty slow going. He's been set to direct since before his last film (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) even opened, but Disney's been hemming and hawing about what it wants to do. As of today, it looks like they're still not quite ready…

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  • '20,000 Leagues' Confirmed To Shoot In Australia If Disney Greenlights

    Briefly: David Fincher's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea hasn't yet been given the green light by Disney, but if that ever happens, Australia is waiting with open arms to welcome the production. The country has offered Disney $22.5m to shoot the film there -- that's a flat payment to bring the production down under. It's the…

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  • Cool Stuff: '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' By Ken Taylor

    As revealed exclusively here on /Film, Mondo has three Disney posters left to be released. Here's one of them. It's a gorgeous rendition of the 1954 live film 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by artist Ken Taylor. The detail has to be seen to be believed. Check it out below. Click on the image to…

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  • David Fincher Says '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' Likely To Be 70% CG

    David Fincher is a forward-thinking kind of guy. In the '90s, when digital effects were still relatively young, he put CGI to work in Alien 3, and heavily used digital images to journey through the brain (and the apartment) of Tyler Durden in Fight Club. He has embraced digital cinematography and the various benefits it…

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  • David Fincher Confirmed For '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'

    Back in May, we wrote that Disney had approached David Fincher to direct an remake of the classic 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. At the time they were still in "negotiations." Well, according to the Los Angeles Times, Disney has now confirmed that David Fincher is "working on" 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. …

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  • David Fincher's '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' Being Developed With "More Heart... Realistic Lucidness"? Nope

    Update: Apparently this story isn't completely accurate. MTV informs us that they have removed the story because Randall Wallace did script work on the McG version of 20,000 Leagues, but that project is dead.  The Fincher is something totally different... Few upcoming projects have quite the promise that Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea does,…

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  • Interview: Sean Bailey, Tron Legacy Producer/Disney President Of Production

    While at Comic-Con, I had a chance to interview producer turned Disney President of Production Sean Bailey about the highly anticipated 3D sci-fi sequel Tron: Legacy. I talked with Sean about his recent rise to power at Disney, returning to Comic-Con for three years with one film, del Toro's Haunted Mansion, the possibility of a…

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  • David Fincher To Direct 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

    File this one under the "it came out of no where" department: Walt Disney Pictures has hired David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) to direct 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. You didn't see that one coming, did you? Fincher doing a four-quadrant family action movie for Disney? Apparently, Fincher has developed a new take on the…

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  • Cool Stuff: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Capt. Nemo's Nautilus Replica

    Today, eFX Collectibles will begin accepting orders for their four-foot replica of Capt. Nemo’s Nautilus, inspired by Disney’s 1954 live-action version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This is the first of three replicas which will be offered in eFX’s new Disney line. This four-foot replica of the Nautilus offers features not incorporated in any…

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