10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Making Of Se7en

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David Fincher’s breakthrough movie, the crime thriller Se7en starring Brad Pitt, had a very fascinating journey from script to screen.

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10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

Released in 1995, David Fincher’s Se7en is often considered one of the greatest detective movies ever made. Absolutely dripping with an oppressive and grungy atmosphere, Seven also wowed critics and audiences alike with its unique deaths, stellar performances, and haunting climactic sequence involving Brad Pitt and a particularly gruesome box.

While opinion obviously varies, Se7en is considered by some to be David Fincher’s greatest piece of work. It’s not only one of the greatest mystery/detective movies ever made, but one of the finest horror-thrillers of the 20th century. Making such an incredible movie is certainly not easy.

10 Numerous Actors Were Considered For Somerset Before Morgan Freeman

10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

Somerset is wonderfully portrayed by veteran actor Morgan Freeman, and Freeman does a commendable job in the role. However, he was far down the list of prospective actors for the role. The screenwriter, Andrew Kevin Walker, wanted William Hurt in the role and envisioned him while writing the movie.

Three actors were offered the role of Somerset before Morgan Freeman: Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman, and Al Pacino. However, all three turned it down for various reasons, with Pacino opting to work on City Hall instead of Se7en.

9 New Line Cinema Really Wanted The Ending Changed

10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

The ending of Seven is an iconic piece of cinema, as Mills realizes that his wife’s decapitated head is in the delivery box and shoots John Doe in retaliation, thereby becoming the sin of wrath.

However, New Line didn’t care for this ending and lobbied hard to have it changed. This was the ending that Andrew Kevin Walker had written, but New Line wanted it changed in favor of a more traditional ending with action elements. However, some important people fought to have it retained…

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8 Both David Fincher & Brad Pitt Fought For The Original Ending

10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

New Line goofed big time by accidentally sending prospective director David Fincher the original script. Fincher adored the script and its gutsy ending, not knowing that New Line had already had it changed. When he eventually found out, he fought to have the original ending reinstated.

Brad Pitt joined him, declaring that he wouldn’t do the movie if they went with the revised ending. The president of production met with Fincher and struck a deal— if he agreed to direct the movie, New Line would keep the original head in a box ending. Fincher agreed, and Se7en had its iconic finale.

7 The Iconic Opening Credits Were Not Planned

10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

Much like its ending, the opening to Se7en is equally iconic. Arguably some of the creepiest opening credits in movie history, audiences are given an eerie look at John Doe’s notebooks, complete with hand-written credits and a scratchy, off-kilter remix of Nine Inch Nails’ already unsettling “Closer.”

However, this was never the intention, but the result of an exhausted budget and a lack of filming time. The original plan was to show Somerset buying a country house and commuting to the city, but the filmmakers had run out of time and money.

6 The Credits Were Envisioned & Created By Kyle Cooper

10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

Kyle Cooper is widely known in the film industry as “the guy you go to for good opening credits.” He has worked on over 350 opening credits throughout his career, including the ones for Home Alone, Braveheart, and Spider-Man.

After having run out of time and money, Fincher approached Cooper to do some inventive credits for Se7en. He came up with the concept and directed the credits himself with the help of the movie’s editor and cinematographer. The credits took two days to film and five weeks to edit.

5 Doe’s Notebooks Cost $15,000 To Make

10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

Speaking of John Doe’s notebooks, they were all meticulously filled out and cost an unbelievable amount of money to make. Every single book was filled with passages specifically handwritten for the movie, and it reportedly took the production team two whole months to fill them out.

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The production of the books also cost the studio an estimated $15,000. This was a major reason for Cooper’s decision to base the credits around Doe’s writings— it would have been a major waste of money had they not done that.

4 Fincher Styled The Movie After The TV Show COPS

10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

From 1989 to 2020, COPS served as a popular mainstay of American television. Serving as a documentary-like look into the world of policing, COPS consisted of a camera crew following around a particular officer as they confronted problematic people and made arrests.

Fincher was greatly inspired by the show’s raw, unfiltered look and directed cinematographer Darius Khondji to give Seven a similar documentary-like tone and appearance to ground the movie’s otherwise outlandish story in gritty realism.

3 Bleach Bypass

10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

Se7en has a very unique physical appearance in that its world appears very colorless and washed out. Production designer Arthur Max has stated, “We created a setting that reflects the moral decay of the people in it.” This largely involved a lack of color, a persistent, cold grayness, and a seemingly unending amount of rain.

The movie’s physical look was captured using a process called bleach bypass. According to Wikipedia, this is “a chemical effect which entails either the partial or complete skipping of the bleaching function during the processing of a color film.”

2 The Movie Was Shot In Sunny Los Angeles

10 Things You Didnt Know About The Making Of Se7en

Despite the dreary appearance that makes the world of Seven look like a macabre version of New York or Seattle, the movie was entirely shot in sunny Los Angeles. The magic of filmmaking, rain machines, and post-production processing at work. All of the film’s exterior locations were filmed around Los Angeles— even the pizza joint ironically named New York Pizza that had some believing it was filmed in New York.

1 Michael Reid MacKay

One of the most disturbing scenes of the movie sees Mills and Somerset coming across the victim associated with the sin of sloth. “Sloth” is actually a drug dealer and child molester named Theodore Allen who had been strapped to a bed and barely kept alive for an entire year.

Knowing that this effect couldn’t be replicated through visual effects, Fincher sought actor Michael Reid MacKay, a man who was often cast in skinny, malnourished roles. At the time of filming, MacKay weighed just 96 pounds.

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