telling of the story of Cleopatra starring Angelina Jolie in March 2011. Fincher confirmed his involvement later that year, stating Eric Roth was working on the screenplay and that he wasn't looking to make it in a typical sword-and-sandal style. He left the project in August 2012. The Girl Who Played with Fire Upon the December 2011 release of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the American adaptation of the Stieg Larsson novel, Fincher revealed the plan was to make the sequels The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, "back to back." The script for Who Played with Fire was revised by Steven Zaillian and Andrew Kevin Walker at various stages. Upon the release of The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz, Sony Pictures elected to reboot the series instead with an adaptation of the new novel. It was released in 2018, directed by Fede Álvarez and starring Claire Foy. Fincher served as an executive producer. Videosyncrazy In June 2015, HBO shut down production of this half-hour comedy series after it had filmed 4-5 episodes, with Fincher directing multiple episodes. It starred Charlie Rowe, Sam Page, Jason Flemyng, Kerry Condon, Elizabeth Lail, Corbin Bernsen and Paz Vega and was set in 1983, following a college dropout who moves to Hollywood with dreams of making a sci-fi epic, but ends up working on music videos. The first season was to begin with the making of the video for Berlin's song The Metro and would have concluded with the filming of Michael Jackson's Thriller. The series was written by Rich Wilkes and Bob Stephenson. Wilkes described it as “a half-hour show in the vein of something like Entourage or Veep.” Utopia Fincher became interested in making an American remake of the British television series Utopia in July 2013. By February 2014, he teamed with author Gillian Flynn and began developing the series at HBO, which gave it a series order. Fincher was set to direct all the episodes of the show's first season, with Flynn writing. The series would have starred Rooney Mara, Colm Feore, Eric McCormack, Dallas Roberts, Jason Ritter, Brandon Scott, and Agyness Deyn. HBO cancelled the project in August 2015,due to budget issues. Fincher stated in an October 2017 interview that it was specifically a disagreement over $9 million. The series was picked up by Amazon Studios in 2018, with