Gone Girl - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Gone Girl or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Gone Girl

[lonnie]

David Fincher shot an incredible five hundred hours of material over the one-hundred-day shoot, an average of five hours per day.

[addison]

The character Ellen Abbott is loosely based on television host Nancy Grace.

[wallace]

When Margo is watching Ellen Abbott, she is having a dinner of bran flakes with organic milk and a glass of red wine.

[ruby]

Besides the reference to Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice", referencing how Rosamund Pike played Jane in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Neil Patrick Harris' character in this film is named Mr. Collings, which is very similar to Mr. Collins of the same book.

[cassandra]

When Officer James Gilpin (Patrick Fugit) asks Detective Rhonda Boney (Kim Dickens) why she was still reading the burned diary, Rhonda responds, "it interests me". This is the same line used by Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) (another movie by David Fincher), when Lisbeth was asked by a police officer why she was digging up another murder case involving a woman.

[ken]

When Greta, Amy's neighbor at the campground, first appears she is listening to "Left Ey3" by Kreayshawn. The song is about finding out your boyfriend is cheating, then burning his house down, and/or causing harm to him, and the person with whom he is cheating.

[nora]

Although the film is based in North Carthage, Missouri, Gone Girl was filmed in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Casting of extras had taken place in the Rose Theatre of Southeast Missouri State University, also located in Cape Girardeau.

[carl]

A Mayflower truck also appeared in David Fincher's Panic Room (2002).

[charlie]

The DVDs visible on Greta's dresser when she's watching the news report are Groundhog Day (1992), Patriot Games (1992), and Protocols of Zion (2005). The other cases are difficult to discern.

[miriam]

Also contains spoilers for the novel and movie Presumed Innocent (1990): Plot similarities: The main character is accused of killing an ex-lover. In this film, it is his wife. In both films, it turns out the wife herself committed the crime, and staged the crime scene to implicate her husband. In both cases, a hammer is involved in the framing. At the end of both films, the accused decides not to divorce his wife, or press charges, realizing his own infidelity led her to do it, and that it would affect their public image. Nick also stays with Amy because she is pregnant. Rusty states he could not prosecute his wife because, "How could I deprive my children of their own mother?" The actors that played the accused husbands, Ben Affleck and Harrison Ford, have also played Jack Ryan.Perhaps not coincidentally, the DVDs visible on Greta's dresser when she's watching the news report include 'Patriot Games' (1992) - starring Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan.

[norma]

It is not coincidence that Nick gives Margo the game "Mastermind", which is then put on a shelf on top of the games "Emergency!", "Let's Make a Deal", and "The Game of Life".

[jamie]

Ben Affleck would constantly sing '80s songs in between takes. Impressed, Tyler Perry decided to start a game that ended up lasting the entire duration of filming. Perry would start to sing the most random song he could think of to see if Affleck would start singing along. According to Perry, Affleck knew all of the words to every single song Perry threw at him, including Broadway showtunes and songs by Barbra Streisand.

[cassandra]

Close to the beginning of the movie, when Nick arrives to the bar, he gives Margo a board game. Once she stores it in a shelf, another board games can be seen, including a backgammon and a Ouija.

[norma]

Nick Dunne is always complaining that his cell phone has no signal. One of the close-ups of his cell phone show that the wireless carrier is T-Mobile, which coincidentally, at the time, had questionable indoor signal strength, due to the lack of lower operating spectrum.

[steve]

With Rosamund Pike getting nominated for Best Actress for this film, this marks the fourth consecutive film that David Fincher has directed Oscar-nominated performances (Brad Pitt and Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008); Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network (2010); and Rooney Mara for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)).

[linda]

Was edited in Adobe Premiere using off-the-shelf Mac computers.

[tammy]

David Fincher's third film in the IMDb top 250 (after Se7en (1995) and Fight Club (1999)).

[dustin]

Most of the doors and windows in daytime interior scenes were fitted with green screens and had the backgrounds added in later, due to inabilities to expose for interiors without the outdoors blowing out.

[jeffrey]

Wife killer suspect Nick (Ben Affleck) is interviewed by Sharon Schieber (Sela Ward). Ward played Helen Kimble, the murdered wife of suspected wife killer Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), in The Fugitive (1993).