HBO may have found its new Entourage. David Fincher is the mastermind behind Living on Video, which follows an aspiring director who gets caught up in the business of music videos in the 1980s. The show was written by Rich Wilkes and Bob Stevenson, who was friends with Fincher when he was involved in the world of music videos, Deadline notes.
Living on Video takes place in Los Angeles in 1983 when a college dropout named Bobby decides to move to California in the hopes of becoming a big-time director. He ends up becoming a production assistant for a company that makes music videos and befriends crew members, directors and other industry players.
Casting has yet to take place and the project has yet to be greenlit, but judging by the popularity of Entourage and the fact that Fincher is at the helm, HBO will definitely take it.
The Gone Girl director knows plenty about the music video business. His music shorts include Madonna's "Express Yourself" and "Vogue," Sting's "Englishman in New York" and, most recently, Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie" featuring Jay Z.
Fincher is best known for some of Hollywood's biggest thrillers including 1995's Se7en, 1999's Fight Club, 2002's Panic Room, 2010's The Social Network and 2011's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Gone Girl, his most recent release, hit theaters in October. It raked in more than $37 million its opening weekend. It's based on the 2012 novel by Gillian Flynn.
"Gone Girl is art and entertainment, a thriller and an issue, and an eerily assured audience picture. It is also a film that shifts emphasis and perspective so many times that you may feel as though you're watching five short movies strung together, each morphing into the next," RogerEbert.com wrote about the film.
