The Netflix stock price is down nearly 50 percent compared to last year, 1,000 employees were just laid off, chief content officer Bela Bajaria is out, Netflix Films chairman Daniel Lin’s future is in doubt, and now director David Fincher has decided to leave.
\n\nFincher, the three-time Oscar-nominated director behind such classics as Seven (1995), Fight Club (1999), Zodiac (2007), and The Social Network (2010), roared into Netflix in 2013 by delivering House of Cards, a game-changer for the streamer that forever changed TV. Instead of rerunning the scraps from established studios, Netflix would produce its own original content. Today, Netflix drops about $20 billion — with a “B” — on original content.
\n\nFincher then delivered the superb first season of Mindhunter in 2017.
\n\nThen, in 2020, Fincher signed an exclusive deal with the streamer that, at least to my eyes, cost Fincher his fastball. His two Netflix features — Mank (2020) and The Killer (2023) — were more content than cinema. The second season of Mindhunter was hijacked by woketardery and fashionable identity politics.
\n\nNext up is The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 masterpiece Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino wrote the…
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