who is the movie gone girl based on
Gone Girl (film) Gone Girl is a film adaptation of Flynn's 2012 novel of the same name. One of the film's executive producers, Leslie Dixon, read the manuscript of the novel in 2011 and brought it to the attention of Reese Witherspoon (who was originally slated to play Amy) in December of that year. Witherspoon and Dixon then collaborated with Bruna Papandrea to further develop the manuscriptâ€”with Flynn's film agent, Shari Smiley, they met with film studios in early 2012.[7]