David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel Gone Girl will be released on October 3. It features a score from Trent Reznor and longtime collaborator Atticus Ross, who won an Oscar for their work on Fincher's The Social Network and earned a Golden Globe nomination for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo's score.
Now, Reznor and Ross, along with Fincher, have revealed a bit about the process that went into composing the score in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Some of it features Reznor working with a live orchestra for the first time.
Reznor says that Fincher told him to "'think about the really terrible music you hear in massage parlors.' The way that it artificially tries to make you feel like everything's OK. And then imagine that sound starting to curdle and unravel."
Fincher replied, "I said a spa, not a massage parlor!" He added, "The movie is about the facade of the good neighbor, the good Christian, the good wife. So the notion was to start with music that's attempting to give you a hug."
Describing the score, Ross said, "The piece travels the journey of the story, mutating within itself from something that feels warm and loving to something that feels so sick. But we close on the same music we open on."
Fincher also said of Reznor and Ross, "They're both extremely quiet. They're not the kind of guys who get nervous that they're not saying anything. It's not a cultivated opacity—they just hold their cards close. They don't have time for a lot of bullshit."
Read the whole piece here.
