Regarded as a contemporary and multifaceted actress, Rosamund Pike, who has has earned international acclaim for both her stage and film roles goes fully titular in the movie adaptation of the bestselling novel by Gillian Flynn of the same title in “Gone Girl.”

Under the direction of acclaimed filmmaker David Fincher, known for his thrilling works in “Fight Club,” “Sev7n,” “The Social Network,” “Zodiac” and “Panic Room,” Pike gives the audience an unforgettable portrayal of Amy Dunne, a woman gone missing on the morning of their fifth year wedding anniversary. Playing opposite Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, the better half and the prime suspect of Amy’s disappearance – “Gone Girl” opens up a vault of ugly truths on a marriage gone really bad.

In “Gone Girl,” Amy Dunne is gone. But at the same time that she disappears into thin air, she becomes an omnipresent media sensation, the paragon of all the beautiful, fragile things that are too easily lost in the world. That is how she is now known throughout America. Yet that is not her only identity.

Indeed, Amy never developed a single persona. She grew up in the long shadow of her psychologist parents’ popular children’s books about her alter-ego: the impossibly perfect “Amazing Amy.” Later, she morphed into the woman she believed her Nick most desired: the perfect “cool girl,” as sexed-up and playfully easy-going as she is on top of things. Then, after moving to Nick’s recession-ravaged hometown in Missouri, leveraging her trust fund in the process, Amy took on new facets.

So just who is Amy Dunne? That is the bottomless abyss into which actress Rosamund Pike descended. A London native, Pike came to the fore as a Bond Girl in “Die Another Day,” and went on to roles in “Pride and Prejudice,” “An Education,” “Jack Reacher” and “World’s End.” But Amy would take Pike into fresh challenges as a character with unending layers that peel away to leave no solid center.

Pike recalls being drawn instantly towards the book’s inky, x-ray view of the underside of marital bliss. “I was quite intrigued by this idea of marriage as con game – the idea that we’re all selling a version of ourselves,” she muses. “And Amy is such a remarkable creation. It fascinated me that she is always performing, perhaps in part because it points back to the life of an actor. The challenge of being Amy is that nothing that happens with her is quite what it seems on the surface.”

That was both the challenge and the allure. She continues: “In playing Amy, I get to explore so many different aspects of the feminine brain. There are scenes where Amy is playing two different things to two different people in the same room – and the audience has to see both.”

In the beginning, Pike believes Amy hoped to construct the perfect relationship. “Those early glory days were really fun for her,” says the actress, “but they weren’t sustainable. “When things started to go wrong – when Nick’s mother got cancer, when Amy’s parents started having financial troubles – the marriage changed. I think Amy felt she showed her real self and Nick didn’t like it.”

Playing Amy took Pike through physical and emotional extremes. “The challenge was peeling back one layer after another of the onion that is this marriage,” she comments. But she says along with the challenges came rich rewards, especially working with Fincher. “David is so detailed in the most psychologically observant ways . . . and because he wants to explore everything, he leaves you feeling that no stone was left unturned,” she says.

Fincher has reciprocal respect for Pike. “Amy is a very, very tricky part,” he says. “The audience should have no idea what she’s going to do next. I’d seen Rosamund’s work and I was struck by the fact that I couldn’t get a read on her. There was something about the way she catches the light in a different way… you don’t really have a grasp of who she is. The most important aspect of Amy for me was that I needed the feeling of an only child. I needed an orchid. I needed a hothouse flower. Rosamund had that thing and she’s also impeccably craft oriented, luminously beautiful and incredibly watchable. I know there were people saying, this is a risk. But when I sat with her I saw that this was somebody who was going to give you everything.”

“Gone Girl” is now showing in cinemas nationwide from 20^th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

   Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike portray the role of their lives in the grittiest thriller of the year in "Gone Girl," based on the bestselling tome of Gillian Flynn brought to life onscreen by renowned filmmaker David Fincher.

Affleck and Pike play Nick and Amy Dunne respectively who personify the quintessential romantic match and modern married couple. But on the day of their fifth year wedding anniversary, Amy curiously disappears. Her vanishing becomes a kind of hall of mirrors in which tantalizing and savage secrets lead to even more tantalizing and savage secrets. The events that unfold are thick with shocks and complications, but the questions that remain are what cut, with razor-sharp precision, to the bone: Who is Nick? Who is Amy? Who are any of us in marriages -- and a society -- built on a precarious base of projected images and disguises?

Taking the alternately guarded and exposed role is Ben Affleck. Says Fincher of casting him: “Putting a cast together is like putting a basketball team together and Nick was the point guard. He has to feed the narrative. It’s a ‘he said, she said’ in the book; but it’s ‘he experiences, she experiences’ in the movie. It’s more subjective. You’re not gifted with all these inner monologues in the movie. So you need an actor who is very deft to play this role. It’s 3-D chess, not Chinese checkers."

The person who lures Nick Dunne back to Missouri as the prodigal son is the one person who believes she knows him as well as anyone can: his twin sister, “Go.” Bereft of their former ambitions, now the pair runs a local bar together. But when Amy goes missing, Go becomes Nick’s singular confidante, the one who still believes in his innocence . . . or does she?

Making her feature film debut in the vivid role is Carrie Coon, known for her work on stage in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and HBO’s “The Leftovers.” A native Chicagoan, Coon had been aware of Flynn as a rising Midwestern writer. “My husband actually handed Gone Girl to me because there are references to ‘Virginia Woolf’ in there, and I really connected to the book.”

She continues: “The passages about what we do to each other in relationships are what make the book far more than a thriller. I think we all get damaged by our relationships, no matter how subtly. So you’re having fun with this twisted plot and then suddenly, Gillian hits you in the face with something deeply true about human behavior. And David the perfect person to take audiences on this ride Gillian created. They are both lovely people who have a deep, dark core.”

Coon sees Go as a kind of anchor for the audience – one of the few characters devoid of pretense. Having grown up the only girl among three brothers, Coon related to Go’s way of “being one of the guys.” “The way my family expresses love is through sarcasm so I get that kind of interaction and it’s a big part of how Go and Nick relate,” she explains. “I love that she’s someone who cracks jokes with the boys, who is very direct. In a way, she’s the real ‘cool girl.’”

At the same time, Go is struggling as much as her twin. “Like Nick, she hasn’t really fulfilled on her promise. She’s come home and kind of given up, which is very true to our economic times. She and Nick are also survivors of a tough childhood together, so it makes sense that, even now, they feel closer to each other than anyone else.”

As for how Go reacts to the accusations against Nick, Coon admits she is unmoored: “Her faith can only go so far before it starts to get outweighed by facts – but it’s deeply troubling to her that she begins to wonder about Nick. She can’t even ask him out loud because it’s such a betrayal to even think about it. I tried to imagine if one of my siblings was in that situation and all these damning, rational facts were coming in, and I could see how much it would be fighting against your own nature.”

Throughout it all, Coon was thrilled be working with Affleck. “He doesn’t have sisters so it was a lot of fun to answer his questions about how siblings act and let him punch me in the arm,” she laughs. “There’s also something about the way David demands so much from the actors, where you feel like you’re all in this together. It was inspiring.”

Find out if blood is indeed thicker than water in "Gone Girl" when it opens October 8 in theaters nationwide from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

Gillian Flynn’s massively popular, nail-biting bestseller “Gone Girl” adapted to screen by director David Fincher and produced by blockbuster filmmakers Arnon Milchan, Joshua Donen with Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon (also as producer) takes Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike at the center of a couple’s marriage that has gone from bliss to national issue when the Mrs. vanished on the day of their fifth year wedding anniversary.

Nick Dunne arrives home on his fifth wedding anniversary to find the front door ajar, furniture strewn in the living room and not a single trace of his beautiful, semi-famous wife. Thus begins his instant public transformation from fortunate husband to man flailing in the media spotlight. Tagged as the proverbial suspect No. 1, the former town golden boy erupts in a series of lies, deceits and inappropriateness that does him no favors. His media persona is not pretty: he has disappointments; he has resentments; he has the kinds of secrets that feed imaginations. But is Nick a killer?

The entire cast, each of whom puts Nick under a different microscope – investigating Nick, defending Nick, suspecting Nick -- impressed Affleck. He says: “There are a lot of interesting choices. Tyler Perry has never done this sort of character, Carrie Coon is so unexpected as Go, and Neil is a brilliant choice because he’s so fearless and you have no idea what’s really going on inside him. This casting is the sign of a director whose interest is in always surprising the audience.”

Among the possible suspects in Amy’s disappearance are former boyfriends, including Desi Collings, Amy’s long-suffering ex from prep school who, though breathtakingly wealthy, has continued to write her lovelorn letters. Taking the role is stage, screen and television star Neil Patrick Harris.

Harris gained notoriety on the small screen as the much-adored title character in “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” a role which also garnered him a Golden Globe nomination. Created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley, the television comedy-drama ran for four seasons and told the story of a brilliant, young doctor who faced the problems of being a normal teenager.

Like so many, Harris was stunned by the novel. “It was one of my favorite books of all time,” he says. “I loved that Gillian was able to write so perceptively from the point of view of both sexes. It was also among the most unsettling books I’ve read. I felt it really broke down the myths of what relationships are and this whole fairy tale ideal that partners can always share everything.”

Desi, Harris notes, has his own fairytale ideas of who Amy is and how they might end up together. “He’s somewhat delusional,” observes Harris. “But your first lover never really leaves you and Amy was certainly that for Desi. So he’s blinded by this undying idea that they’re meant to be.”

Harris notes that Desi is not alone in his reaction to Amy, though he has his own reasons. “Amy seems to have a strong power over everyone in her life but especially men who desire her,” he says. “She kind of sucks you into her vacuum. I think Desi is a little socially off, so he likes the idea of that. He’s rich but he’s the recipient of family money that was never earned so he doesn’t have a strong sense of himself. I see him as weirdly fragile in his own right. There’s something heightened about him, but I felt I really needed to understand why he behaves the way he does.”

Working with Fincher for the first time was also a revelation. “I’ve been a big fan of what he has created on screen but watching him create in person made me even more so,” he says. “He has such deep passion for the entirety of the filmmaking process -- from light refractions and dolly moves to pacing and the written word. He is a true director in the most dynamic sense.”

Harris especially enjoyed Fincher’s way of peering into the infinitesimal details of performance. “It felt like we were all in a kind of meditation together,” he says, “and you knew by the time David was happy, a scene had been distilled to its essence. I think he’s a visual poet, nay, a sculptor. He takes a moment and chips away until he gets at something true.”

Neil Patrick Harris recently concluded his run as the womanizing Barney Stinson in the hit CBS comedy series, “How I Met Your Mother,” a role which has garnered him multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations, as well as two People’s Choice Awards for Favorite TV Comedy Actor, and a Critics’ Choice Award for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Harris is a five-time Emmy Award winner for his guest-starring role on "Glee," and his role as host of the 63rd, 65th, 66th and 67th Annual Tony Awards. He also served as host and producer of the 61st and 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as the 67th Annual Tony Awards. Named one of the “2008 Entertainers of the Year” by Entertainment Weekly, Neil was included on Time Magazine's 2010 Time 100 List, an annual list of the world's leading thinkers, leaders, artists, and heroes.

Find out what happened to Amy in “Gone Girl” when it opens in cinemas nationwide on October 8 from 20^th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

From the tour de force thriller that became a bestselling must-read comes David Fincher’s screen version of Gone Girl, a wild ride through our modern media culture and down into the deep, dark fault lines of an American marriage – in all its unreliable promises, inescapable deceits and pitch-black comedy.

The couple at the center of the story – former New York writer Nick Dunne and his formerly “cool girl” wife Amy, now trying to make ends meet in the mid-recession Midwest – have all the sinuous outer contours of contemporary marital bliss. But on the occasion of their 5th wedding anniversary, Amy goes missing -- and those contours crack into a maze of fissures. Nick becomes the prime suspect, shrouded in a fog of suspicious behavior. Amy becomes the vaunted object of a media frenzy as the search for her, dead or alive, plays out before the eyes of a world thirsting for revelations.

Taking the alternately guarded and exposed role of Nick is Ben Affleck. Says Fincher of casting him: “Putting a cast together is like putting a basketball team together and Nick was the point guard. He has to feed the narrative. It’s a ‘he said, she said’ in the book; but it’s ‘he experiences, she experiences’ in the movie. It’s more subjective. You’re not gifted with all these inner monologues in the movie. So you need an actor who is very deft to play this role. It’s 3-D chess, not Chinese checkers.”

Collaborating with Rosamund Pike in the role of Amy brought Affleck into an intense pas de deux unlike anything he’s done before. “There’s a kind of inscrutable, enigmatic quality to Rosamund that made her really right for this role,” Affleck observes. “A big part of this movie, at least from my point of view, is the constant calibration of where each of the characters stands as they keep shifting and evolving – so that sense of mystery in Amy was very important to the whole enterprise.”

When Nick reports his wife missing, he begins a thorny, unwanted relationship with Detective Rhonda Boney, the primary investigator on the case -- and Nick’s only conceivable lifeline. Among the image-obsessed characters in Gone Girl, Boney is the one drawn to cold, hard truth. Taking the role is Kim Dickens, best known for The Blind Side, “Deadwood”, “Friday Night Lights” and “Sons of Anarchy.”

Dickens says she felt an instant kinship with the character. “I felt I could climb right into her,” she says. “She’s a real salt-of-the-earth woman – pragmatic, humble but actually quite good at her job.”

She notes that Boney chooses to sidle up to Nick because that’s the most promising strategy, guilty or not. “The percentages are very high when a wife goes missing that the spouse is involved,” Dickens points out. “But Boney knows that even if Nick did it, she still has to get him to think she’s on his side so he’ll open up to her. She knew him as a child, but now she has to try to figure who he has become as a man – and it’s not all that clear right off the bat. Things feel a little hinky. But she still gives Nick a little benefit of the doubt because that’s what her instincts about human behavior tell her.” Fincher was impressed by Dickens’ organic take on the role. “I wanted Boney to be a kind of Midwestern Sherlock Holmes, and that’s what Kim brings to her. She doesn’t miss much,” he says.

Thrilling and chilling clues unfold when “Gone Girl” opens October 8 in cinemas nationwide from 20^th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

The bestselling page-turner “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn gets film treatment from director David Fincher, known for his thrilling works in acclaimed hits “Fight Club,” “Se7en,” “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” “Zodiac” and “The Social Network” where Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike star as the afflicted couple when the Mrs. disappears on the day of their fifth year wedding anniversary.

One of the most anticipated movie of the season, “Gone Girl” is also written for the screen by the book’s author (Flynn) that explores a troubled marriage and how the media played a major part on Nick and Amy’s marriage. Affleck plays Nick Dunne, a man who becomes the prime suspect in a murder when his wife Amy (Pike) is nowhere to be found on their fifth wedding anniversary.

Nick and Amy are both journalists when they met each other at a party in New York, Nick a writer for a magazine while Amy writes personality quizzes for different publications. After getting married and with the surge of online publishing, both eventually lost their jobs leading them to move to Nick’s hometown in North Carthage to take care of his ailing mother and father. They easily slipped into their new life, Amy being home most of the time while Nick opened up a bar with his sister Go (Carrie Coon) and secured a teaching post in the local college.

Nick’s usually quiet town is suddenly abuzz when Amy disappeared on the day of their fifth wedding anniversary. In his usual morning routine, Nick goes to The Bar and Amy stays at home. Hours later, Nick receives a call that prompted him to come back home but couldn’t find Amy anywhere near their house. Confused, Nick found broken glasses, overturned coffee table and streaks of blood all over the house. But clearly no sign of broken doors and windows.

Once news from the neighbourhood broke and reached the media, Nick finds himself under the court of public opinion where media anchors and reporters try to interpret and report whatever details they picked up from the investigation. As the investigation deepens, Nick and the police slowly discover clues left by Amy, in the tradition of their yearly anniversary and tried to use it to get to the bottom of Amy’s disappearance. The investigators, Amy’s parents, friends and the media guess that Nick is the prime suspect of his wife’s curious disappearance . Even worse, Nick has to fend off attacks from a talk show host whom everyone in town believes in and all other national media reporters who stalk him everywhere trying to get him to admit to his wife’s disappearance.

Find out what happened to Amy when “Gone Girl” opens in cinemas nationwide on October 8 from 20^thCentury Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

Recently, bags of evidence have recently surfaced on the net on the disappearance of Amy...gone on the day of their 5^th wedding anniversary. A piece of underwear, a cutter stained with blood, a photo of their wedding day and a note that says ‘this man may kill me’ suggest that her husband might be the main suspect of her mysterious disappearance.  Despite it all, he swears he didn't kill his beautiful wife.

Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike star in the bestselling page turner tome “Gone Girl” by author Gillian Flynne. Affleck and Pike play Mr. Nick and Mrs. Amy Dunne whose marriage have been exposed to the public when Amy had gone missing.

Directed by David Fincher, known for his gripping works such as “Fight Club,” “Seven,” “The Social Network,” “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the trailer of his latest movie “Gone Girl” has just been released here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTj2ddCg5C4&list=UU-JrjBL_iZAn5wjEsw9nRYA

Did he or didn’t he? Find out the truth when “Gone Girl” opens in cinemas nationwide on October 2 from 20^th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.