Bookish: Gone Girl Ending Changed — Five Alternate Endings

An article last week on Bookish proposes five alternate endings to Gillian Flynn's bestseller Gone Girl, which is now being adapted for film.

Part of what made the book such a success in 2012 was the buzz around that big, game-changing twist halfway through the novel. And there was a fear that readers who had already enjoyed the book — about a seemingly perfect marriage that comes under suspicion when wife Amy goes missing on her fifth anniversary and police begin investigating husband Nick — would be less engaged by director's David Fincher's movie adaptation, since they already know how it ends.

Well, Fincher went ahead and eliminated that dilemma by deciding to completely rewrite the entire third act of the movie. Flynn, who adapted her own novel, took on the challenge of tossing out the third act and taking Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy (Rosamund Pike) to entirely new places.

The article — which includes spoilers for those, who haven't yet read the book — provides a few imagined alternate endings that would, in the opinion of the author, improve the Gone Girl story, in … "Gone Girl Ending Changed — Five Alternate Endings" by Natalie Zutter for Bookish.