It spends time telling the story in the past and flashing forward to the present. So why did Gillian Flynn’s “Dark Places” barely make an impact?”įrom my research, it appears it was not an easy road for “Dark Places” to get to the big screen.Īpart from behind the scene struggles, the movie also follows the same hard to follow structure the book does. Flynns Dark Places, on the other hand, turned out to be a much better read than it was a cinematic experience from director Gilles Paquet-Brenner (despite its talented cast that includes Charlize. A former critic for Entertainment Weekly, she lives in Chicago with her husband and children. It was released in summer 2015 to only 151 theaters and only brought in $86,000 at the box office versus the $38 million “Gone Girl” made in its first weekend at more than 3,000 theaters, according to an article in the Washington Post. Gillian Flynn is the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, for which she wrote the Golden Globenominated screenplay the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects and a novella, The Grownup. With that said though, the movie was not that great.Īside from big names who star in it including Charlize Theron as Libby, many did not know about the movie. I’m sure there are some minor details that were either left out or added for theatrical reasons but for the most part it captured the story behind “Dark Places.” Their goal is to free Ben.įrom the portion of the book I read, the movie follows along quite well. They also work to convince Libby that her brother was not the killer although she testified as a 7 year old that he was. The club wants Libby to come speak and they want her to look into the killings.

She meets with a group called the Kill Club who is full of members obsessed with notorious crimes. Libby has been living off estate money and donations for a good 20 years or so but when the money starts to run out, she must do something. A girl gone astray after the brutal murder of her family decides to reopen the case nearly three decades later in Dark Places, French director Gilles.

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