UPDATE: A reader on Twitter has pointed out to me the similarity between this cover and the “Rolling Stone” cover featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono as captured by Annie Leibovitz. The same night the Polaroid was snapped, Dec. 8, 1980, Lennon was shot and killed by a fan in front of his Manhattan apartment. I’ve included the Rolling Stone cover just below the new EW cover.
Entertainment Weekly has revealed the cover of their 2014 Preview issue and it’s a morbid image of stars Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck posing for a marketing shot for David Fincher‘s adaptation of Gillian Flynn‘s Gone Girl and it’s appropriately dark and appropriately Fincher.
Flynn adapted her novel for the screen and tells EW, “There was something thrilling about taking this piece of work that I’d spent about two years painstakingly putting together with all its eight million LEGO pieces and take a hammer to it and bash it apart and reassemble it into a movie.”
Fincher commented on the story and its characters saying, “I don’t know what ‘likable’ is. I know people who are doting parents, who give to charity, drive Priuses, all those things, who are insufferable assholes… I like people who get shit done.”
Well, well… tell us how you really feel.
Gone Girl hits theaters October 3. Check out the cover and the film’s synopsis below.
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media–as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents–the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter–but is he really a killer?
As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?
With her razor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around.
