My idea to make a fan experience is to make it a video game.
You would be Nick or Amy and either try to find Amy or escape from Nick. As
Nick you would use the clues Amy left and all the hints from the crime scene to
hunt down and find Amy. To go through the suspects and piece things together
like Nick did, or plant the evidence to frame Nick like Amy did.
In the book Nick's wife Amy Dunne is
missing and they don't know what happen to her. It was their fifth wedding
anniversary and Nick comes down in the morning to his wife's disappearance. You
would play as Nick to find the first clue to start the game. Using the clue you
would find the next and next and so on. Like the book you would go through and
find the suspects, or anyone who had bothered, stalked, or obsessed over Amy. And
visit some of the places she goes to such as Costco, but not Sam’s Club
because, “Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco.” Or you could
play as Amy trying to get away from her husband, Nick Dunne. You would go
through and find the journal she wrote to get the police to suspect Nick and
hide it where she hid it in the book. You would also go have the conversations
she had during the book and before her “murder/ kidnapping”. Her talking with
the neighbors or the guys in the mall. Planting the evidence and running away.
You would go wherever she went in the book after running away. The people that
she met and became “friends” with them and how she landed at Desi, a boyfriend
from Amy’s past, home where you would have to have read the book to know what
to do next.
The
plot of the game with match that of the plot of the book but it would also add
the option of going through Amy’s life and her back flashes through her
rereading the journal to start after you find it. This will allow the fans to go
through not just Nick but the option of Amy. And she needs to get away from
Nick because, “Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful
last bit.” To start the game it would be easy to use a quote that sums of the
book. The game could start out with the quote: “The worst feeling: when you
just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie” and start with whichever
character you decide to begin with. This quote sums up the book because both
characters have made up so many lies and to go with the lies you need to
prepare what you are to say and have evidence to back you up.
The game would have to be for higher level teenagers for
language, some intense scenes (most scenes with Nick and Andie), major alcohol
consumption along with owning a bar called “The Bar” as the character Nick
Dunne—or Lance Nicholas Dunne— and violence, such as beatings, murdering, and self-harming,
with character deaths. You would either go from causing a crime scene to coming
into the house to find a crime scene.
The difference between the characters are big and getting to see both
sides of the story like in the book but in more depth is a major fan experience
for anyone that has read the book and liked it. Adding Amy’s flash backs and causing
the ruckus in their Missouri home.
“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to f***
off.”
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