Y’know, this isn’t going to have a happy ending.

Welcome to a BRAND NEW SEASON of RETRO//RANKED, the Rolling Tape network series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we love and rank their individual entries leading up to some of the biggest new releases. 

Today, we’re back for SEASON 8. We’ve covered a lot of major filmmakers and franchises in our previous seasons, like Paul Thomas Anderson, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, and Star Wars. But, this season might end up being crazier than every other season combined because today we’re beginning our deep dive into the career of David Fincher, a filmmaker whose name holds a lot of meaning to many of us at The Rolling Tape. Among us lies a member whose personal ranking of Fincher’s filmography is so controversial that it’s sparked countless debates and arguments within the team, and it partially led to the idea for this show. 

We’re of course covering David Fincher as we lead up to the release of his latest film, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, which at time of recording this first episode, we were not 100% sure would even end up releasing this year. 

We rolled with it anyway because we live in a crazy world. David Fincher’s directing a sequel to a Quentin Tarantino movie with a script written by Tarantino himself. Aaron Sorkin is directing a sequel to a David Fincher movie that he wrote himself. Maybe we’ll cover it on this show. Who knows? 

We do know that we are discussing David Fincher's first two movies: Alien³ & Seven. Many numbers to think about. Welcome to Season 8.