Gone Girl - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[harry]

"The Bar" restaurant in the movie is now a real restaurant exactly where it was filmed in downtown Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

[chad]

During an August 2014 interview with New York Magazine, Tyler Perry said that he didn't know anything about the movie's source novel, or David Fincher, and that he wouldn't have accepted his role in the movie if he had: "I probably would have walked away from it. If I had known who David Fincher was, and his body of work, or if I'd known the book was so popular, and so many people loved it, I would have said, 'No', and my agent knew that! He didn't tell me until after I signed on, and the reason I wouldn't have done it, is because when things are that magical for people, and they become very special for people, there's a lot of pressure for it to be what they want it to be."

[ray]

In the book, when Amy meets Desi at the casino, a stranger interrupts their conversation to ask if she is related to the Enloes. (In the book's acknowledgments, author Gillian Flynn thanks Detective Craig Enloe of the Overland Park Police Department for answering her "42,000 e-mails.") In the film, the line is kept but the name is changed from Enloe to Nolan--the surname of the author's spouse, Brett, and their children.

[sara]

In addition to having the same word in both titles, as well as Ben Affleck's brother Casey, there are several plot similarities between this film and Gone Baby Gone (2007), which was directed by Ben Affleck. The plots of both movies revolve around a girl who goes missing, then is believed to be dead, but is actually alive, and at the center of a complex scheme. She is returned home to an uneasy home life. Both films are based on novels, and even have very similar posters.