A year after the blockbuster success of Gone Girl , adapted from Gillian Flynn 's best-selling mystery novel, star Charlize Theron headlined a mostly forgotten Flynn adaptation herself. While Gone Girl earned more than $370 million globally, becoming the highest-grossing film of director David Fincher 's career, Theron's Dark Places adaptation generated only $5 million a year later. The movie was directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner , and was released domestically by A24. But it opened to terrible reviews , and remains the least-successful Flynn adaptation yet. Interestingly, Theron would go on to collaborate with Fincher as an executive producer on their cult classic Netflix thriller series Mindhunter , which remains in limbo after two acclaimed seasons. W

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