How could it possibly go wrong?īut when filming wrapped back in 2018, test audiences were unimpressed and the disgraced producer Scott Rudin (see, cursed) hired the professional fixer Tony Gilroy (who also came on late to help Rogue One) to handle reshoots. Joe Wright, director of Atonement and Darkest Hour, came onboard to add some flair, along with Tracy Letts in charge of adapting the book, and a stacked cast including Letts himself, Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Anthony Mackie, Brian Tyree Henry and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The novel it was based on, by AJ Finn, was part of the post-Gone Girl boom in domestic thrillers centred on fractured female protagonists, and after David Fincher’s adaptation became a smash, Fox hoped for a repeat success, nabbing the rights with speed. Ultimately what happened off screen has become far more interesting than what’s finally being dumped in front of us. Yet it has all the hallmarks of a classic cursed production – disastrous test screenings, frantic reshoots, a second writer brought in late, a swirling controversy, a frantic Netflix sale. It was a talk-of-the-town package – a starry cast attached to the adaptation of a blockbuster book with an acclaimed film-maker and a Tony-winning playwright bringing it to life.
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