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Two years later Fincher directed The Game, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, a dark adventure story focusing on a closed-off San Francisco businessman who receives an unusual gift from his younger brother -- a gift in which he becomes an unwitting player in a game that takes over his life. In 1999, he re-teamed with Brad Pitt in Fight Club, based on the screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel about two men who open up a club devoted exclusively to bare-knuckles fighting for males. The film, which co-starred Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter, received strong reaction from critics and developed an underground following marking it as one of the seminal films of its time.
In 2002, he directed The Panic Room, starring Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakum and Fight Club collaborator Jared Leto. The box-office hit, which introduced some innovative uses of computer graphics, centered on the plight of a single mother and her daughter hiding in a safe room of their new house as criminals broke in bent on finding a missing fortune.
Fincher is currently directing Paramount's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
Before Fincher began directing feature films, he co-founded Propaganda Films in 1986.
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David Fincher Facts
| Occupation | Director |
| Birthday | May 10, 1962 (46) |
| Sign | Taurus |
| Birthplace | Denver, Colorado, USA |
Selected Filmography
| Fight Club | ||
| Seven | ||
| Alien Quadrilogy | ||
| The Game | ||
| Zodiac | ||
| Alien Triple Pack | ||
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