David Fincher Re-Ups Netflix Deal Until 2026
David Fincher will continue making movies and TV shows for Netflix, as his deal with the streamer has been extended another three years. Coming off his successful The Killer, according to the company’s metrics, Fincher told Premiere Magazine that his deal, which was originally to end in 2024, will now run until 2026 (via World of Reel).
Under that deal, which has been running for many years, Fincher has created series like House of Cards, Mindhunter, and Love, Death + Robots, and directed two movies: 2020’s Mank and 2023’s The Killer. The director hasn’t set on a new project yet, but there have been reports running around for a while about him working on a North American remake of Squid Game. There has also been talk recently of possibly reviving Mindhunter, although that screams wishful thinking more than anything else.
The Squid Game prospects are interesting, though. The South Korean series debuted in 2021 out of nowhere, after being silently in the works for a decade by creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, and quickly jumped to the #1 original series ever for the company. topping Wednesday season 1 and Stranger Things season 4 (both of them came out later). A second season has been ordered and it’s in the works, but the company kept the IP alive through last fall’s reality show, which didn’t exactly move the needle for them in terms of ratings.
So why an English language remake, when it’s already so successful? They might have their own metrics telling them this could be even bigger, but it seems a bit weird. David Fincher, however, is no stranger to American remakes not so long after the original comes out in a foreign language, having made his Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in 2011, two years after the Swedish adaptation of the Stieg Larsson novel.
The news also came out the same day as it was announced that Scott Stuber would be departing as the Netflix chief film executive to form his own company. Stuber has been with Netflix since 2017, shaping their film lineup ever since they decided to start investing heavily in feature films. He’s overseen years of big tentpoles and plenty of forays into the Dolby Theater; it started with 2017’s Bright and included Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA, the Russo’s The Gray Man, partnerships with Zack Snyder (Army of the Dead and both Rebel Moon films) and Rian Johnson (Glass Onion and a third Benoit Blanc mystery in the works), and also Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman or multiple Noah Baumbach movies, including Marriage Story and White Noise. Among so many others.
The five biggest movies for Netflix ever are: Red Notice, Don’t Look Up, The Adam Project, Bird Box, and The Gray Man. All of them hailing from Stuber’s leadership.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
