David Fincher Talks ‘Alien 3’ Mistakes, Career Evolution With Steven Soderbergh: ‘I Came Out of a Truly F–d Up Situation’
thewrap.comAs part of the 2023 Tribeca Festival, David Fincher candidly discussed his career, filmmaking process and philosophy with Steven Soderbergh before a capacity crowd in the Indeed Theater at Spring Studios for an hour on Thursday evening.
The two have known one another for 31 years, and have been in frequent contact for 20, showing each other rough cuts for feedback.
Audience members were treated to a rare glimpse of a meeting of two great minds working in American cinema, as they occasionally revisited topics of their private conversations.
They first met when Fincher was fired – for the second time – during production of his troubled feature debut, “Alien 3.” Both were set to direct episodes in the second season of the Showtime series “Fallen Angels,” but Fincher later pulled out after “Seven” got greenlit. “I came out of a truly f–ked-up situation and kind of swore that I would never make the same mistake,” Fincher said of “Alien 3.” “I made a lot of brand new ones, but I’d never start something that didn’t have a script that I didn’t believe in or that I didn’t understand or that I couldn’t articulate to people.
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