Gone Girl: Book vs. Movie
David Fincher’s 2014 film Gone Girl is adapted from Gillian Flynn’s 2012 book of the same name. Flynn also wrote the screenplay. Both follow the disappearance of Amy Dunne and the growing suspicion surrounding her husband, Nick.
From Books Adapted
How it was adapted
The movie changes how the two accounts reach us
The movie covers the novel's full story, but gives its two narrators different treatment. Nick's account unfolds in the present. Amy's diary supplies a voice-over and scenes from the past.
In the book, readers have direct access to Nick's thoughts as well as Amy's account. The movie removes most of that access to Nick. We have to judge what he does and says without hearing all his private explanations. Flynn said she did not want both characters talking at the audience throughout the movie.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Gillian Flynn
- Year
- 2012
- Pages
- 475Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 19 hr 57 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne
Amy Dunne disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, leaving her husband Nick facing questions he struggles to answer. His account and entries from Amy’s diary offer conflicting pictures of their marriage.
- Director
- David Fincher
- Writer
- Gillian Flynn
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 2 hr 29 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
- Genre
- Crime, crime thriller, detective, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
When his wife Amy goes missing, Nick Dunne makes a public appeal for her return. His awkward appearances and concealed affairs draw suspicion as police investigate what happened inside their home.
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