Despite recent successes on the big and small screens with Gone Girl and Netflix’s House Of Cards, it appears that David Fincher is not destined to have the same golden touch with HBO. Though the cable channel’s unflinching environs might have seemed like the perfect home for his sensibilities, it appears budget issues have scuppered his new version of Utopia.Accordsing to Deadline, clashes over the cost of the series – which adapts Dennis Kelly’s paranoid thriller story from the Channel 4 original with Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn on script duty had been gearing up to shoot with a cast that included Rooney Mara, Colm Feore, Eric McCormack, Dallas Roberts, Jason Ritter, Brandon Scott and Agyness Deyn.But with Fincher and the HBO bosses unable to come to terms on how much the whole shebang should cost, the show – at least with the Social Network director attached – is now effectively shut down.
- 8/9/2015
- EmpireOnline
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