David Fincher is the director of such dark cult classics as Se7en, Fight Club, and the new Oscar contender The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Dude sure loves him some Brad Pitt, but then again, who doesn't? But Fincher is not helping out his award-winning cause by becoming the biggest diva director in Hollywood since George Clooney beat up David O. Russell on the set of 3 Kings. Perhaps the auteur is still steamed over Zodiac not getting an Academy nod two years ago?
Fincher's personal fight club includes a recent chest-punch to John Goldwyn, the guy who ran Paramount 15 years ago when Fincher originally wanted to make this movie and was turned down by the studio. The beatdown also came with a warning for future naysayers of Fincher's work, "That's for you, for not greenlighting the movie when you had a chance." Well, at least the man directs what he knows about with his random acts of violence.
Someone should introduce to Fincher to Rahm Emanuel's brother…we have a feeling they might get along.
George Clooney was not the one who "beat up David O Russell", it was David O Russel who tried to beat up the actor and has been rude towards almost every body who had ever worked with him on films…
Funny how USA Today interviewed Fincher and Brad Pitt and he managed to sound like a nice, if a bit intense, man. But you people at Jossip make him sound like a total idiot divo!! Nice work!!
@bee: Nope, it was the other way around. Though Russell was being a prick on set and yelling at a P.A. (I believe), it was Clooney who threw the first (and only?) punch. http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0155346/
@ drew: almost all the reports about the incident said otherwise. Russell was the one who wanted to fight the actor but they were separated before they could exchange any punch… The incident began when Russel pushed quite hard an extra.
This is such a load ginned up by Oscar rivals. As AwardsDaily says, negative campaigning is a yearly tradition.