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Director
David Fincher
Cinematographer
Jeff Cronenweth
Production Designer
Donald Graham Burt
Composer
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Runtime
149 minutes
Genre
Thriller Drama Mystery
Filming Locations
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Los Angeles, California
Budget
$61 million
Box Office
$369 million

Gone Girl marks the first entirely digital RED Dragon 6K collaboration between Fincher and Cronenweth, leveraging high resolution to capture the film's dual-narrative structure with crystalline clarity and an unsettlingly clean suburban aesthetic. Kirk Baxter's editorial work, executed entirely in Adobe Premiere Pro CC with Dynamic Link to After Effects, pioneered a fully in-house digital post-production workflow that became an industry benchmark. The Reznor and Ross score — composed of synth washes, lonely pianos, and ominous drones — evokes psychological dread through tonal ambiguity.

ARTICLE / American Society of Cinematographers / 2014.10
AC Gallery: Gone Girl
ARTICLE / Variety / 2014.10
Gone Girl Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth on a Dark Tale in High-Res
ARTICLE / Deep Fried Movies / 2015.01
Gone Girl Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth Interview
ARTICLE / postPerspective / 2014.10
Kirk Baxter on Editing David Fincher's Gone Girl
ARTICLE / No Film School / 2014.10
How an All-Adobe Workflow Made Post Production of Gone Girl Insanely Efficient
ARTICLE / postPerspective / 2014.10
Pioneering 6K Post Workflows for Gone Girl
ARTICLE / NPR / 2014.09
First Listen: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Gone Girl Soundtrack
ARTICLE / fxguide / 2014.10
Maintaining the Mystery: Editor Kirk Baxter on Gone Girl
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