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Gone Girl: where to start reading
Adapts Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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1 parts
on screen
1 book
to read
Tracks closely
from the books
After Gone Girl, in the books you are
at Gone Girl.
through the end of the novel.
The film adapts the whole of the single novel. It condenses subplots but follows the book's structure and conclusion.
Start reading at Gone Girl (the complete novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the movies already showed you.
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What the movies changed here
- CutGillian Flynn wrote the screenplay and trims subplots, but the film keeps the novel's core structure and its ending.
- CutThe book's eight-month gap after Nick and Amy first meet, before they run into each other again, is dropped from the film.
- CutRebecca, a young crime blogger Nick confides in, and one of the anniversary-clue locations (Hannibal) are cut from the movie.
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David Fincher's 2014 film adapts Gillian Flynn's single 2012 novel. Flynn wrote the screenplay herself, condensing the book while keeping its core plot and ending intact.
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