![]() That was always the highlight of my year.”įlynn first came aboard Utopia in 2014, when David Fincher, who directed the film adaptation of Gone Girl, tapped her to write the scripts. “In Kansas City, there’s a great convention called Fool Con. “That was what we did on weekends-pile into the family station wagon, then go to flea markets and comic conventions,” Flynn said. Flynn’s father, a professor of film studies, made part of his living by finding and selling rare comic books, meaning that Flynn was steeped in fandom from a young age. ![]() After all, Flynn’s enduring love for fan culture is a family affair. For Flynn, a self-described “professional fan” whose career has taken her from beat journalism at toilet seat conventions to the highest echelons of literary Hollywood, Utopia is something of a creative homecoming. What may seem on its surface like winky, self-referential fan service is in fact a fitting grace note for Utopia, a conspiracy thriller about a band of comic book superfans tasked with saving the world. Flynn said she would give the rights herself, and Gone Girl: The Musical landed on the marquee. Yiyun Li Is Expanding Our Vocabulary For Grief.Regina Porter Is Writing a Pandemic Novel.Karen Russell Talks About 'Sleep Donation'.Eventually we were getting down to the wire, and I finally said, ‘Hey, I know who will give us rights. ![]() “I threw out about twenty possibilities, and I got rejected over and over. ![]() “As it turns out, getting rights is so complicated,” Flynn said, of her quest to get the name of an existing musical on the marquee. Flynn hoped to fill the space with an easter egg, maybe even a cheeky nod to her beloved city of Chicago, but landing the rights to other pop culture properties proved challenging-until she had a breakthrough. In an early episode of the series, Flynn had an empty marquee to fill, with The Chicago Theater’s landmark lights gleaming in the background of a scene where two characters stumble down North State Street. Adapted from a 2013 British television series by the same name, Utopia centers on a tightly-knit group of uber-knowledgeable superfans, who are shocked to learn that their favorite comic isn’t just real, but it holds the secrets to the public health conspiracy of the century. I’m the biggest musical lover in the world.”įlynn had a chance to contemplate Gone Girl: The Musical during the making of Utopia, her new Amazon Studios series (and her first outing as a television showrunner), in which eagle-eyed fans can catch a glimpse of the would-be musical on a Chicago marquee. “I think it would be a rock opera-a deep, dark rock opera,” Flynn said. There’s just one problem: Gone Girl: The Musical isn’t happening anytime soon, even if Flynn has thought about it. Adapted from Gillian Flynn’s runaway bestseller, it would undoubtedly pack seats for months, with legions of Flynn fanatics turning out to watch their favorite anti-heroine belt her way through the novel’s familiar twists and turns. It would be violent, bleak, and blood-splattered, with the apex of the night occurring when the voice of cool, calculating Amy Dunne soars all the way to the cheap seats during a bring-down-the-house eleven o’clock number. Gone Girl: The Musical would be dark-that’s a given.
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