Director David Fincher to Helm Bobby Fischer Biopic PAWN SACRIFICE | Collider

David Fincher is attached to direct the Bobby Fischer biopic Pawn Sacrifice for Columbia. As we reported over the weekend, Fincher is keeping busy as he’s also circling an adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in addition to his continuing efforts to make a new version of Heavy Metal a reality. Columbia’s eager to be in business with Fincher again as the studio was pleased with his work on The Social Network, which is about the creation of Facebook.

According to Variety, Sacrifice would follow Fischer’s life story up to his historic world championship match against Boris Spassky. But I think the biggest challenge in making a Fischer biopic is that he was a complete douchebag. When Fischer first heard about 9/11, he responded, “This is all wonderful news,” and hoped that a coup d’état of the US government would lead to the execution of, “hundreds of thousands of American Jewish ring-leaders.” He also wrote a letter to Osama Bin Laden celebrating their shared interests of hating Jews and America (although he probably never sent it as Bin Laden’s not really in the White Pages so it’s tough to get an address).

Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) recently turned in a screenplay and I trust that Fincher is one of the few people that could make a compelling movie about a brilliant chess player/bat-shit insane hate-fountain.

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Woah. Never heard any of those hate quotes from Fischer before. Loved the other movie about him, Searching for Bobby Fischer, which I just Googled and found out is really about the life of Joshua Waitzkin. WTF?
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This script has nothing to do with Fischer's political views. As stated it takes place before and during his 72 match with Spassky. It's a fucking amazing read and it honestly reminded me a lot of the social network when I read it. His character is made out to be a rock star just like Zuckerberg was in the Social Network script.

Podcast at pdfscreenplays.com goes into the details of the script.
MCd_lyte

I will only see this if a chess player drives a flying lambourgini and has so many sweet heat seeking rocket launchers and proximity mines to kill aliens other wise no.

I will see instead Richard Gere in love with Cujo 3 way love triangle revenge movie that you read about here

http://tinyurl.com/y9qdsmg
junierizzle

SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER was a good chess movie. So a chess movie directed by Fincher, uh….I'm in.
Altough with The SOcial network and now this. I wish he would sooner another dark thriller type flick.
http://pdfscreenplays.com/ PDF

This script has nothing to do with Fischer's political views. As stated it takes place before and during his 72 match with Spassky. It's a fucking amazing read and it honestly reminded me a lot of the social network when I read it. His character is made out to be a rock star just like Zuckerberg was in the Social Network script.

Podcast at pdfscreenplays.com goes into the details of the script.
MCd_lyte

I will only see this if a chess player drives a flying lambourgini and has so many sweet heat seeking rocket launchers and proximity mines to kill aliens other wise no.

I will see instead Richard Gere in love with Cujo 3 way love triangle revenge movie that you read about here

http://tinyurl.com/y9qdsmg
junierizzle

SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER was a good chess movie. So a chess movie directed by Fincher, uh….I'm in.
Altough with The SOcial network and now this. I wish he would sooner another dark thriller type flick.
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