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The view: Why has David Fincher remade Forrest Gump?
Boggling as the thought is to me, given its vast popularity, I'm prepared to accept there may well have been people whose first thought on leaving the cinema after watching Forrest Gump back in 1994 was, "More, please." Sadly, of course, more wasn't forthcoming. Now, however, 15 years later, ...
Transcript of the Guardian interview with David Fincher at BFI Southbank
guardian.co.uk — Mark Salisbury: David Fincher, let's start at the end, as Button does, and talk about The Curious... Case of Benjamin Button. It's kind of a departure for you, in that it's a love story, but with an unhappy ending. David Fincher: Yes, everybody dies. ... (more) Transcript of the Guardian interview with David Fincher ...
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