Eager to prove himself after the failure of his first feature film project, Alien 3, Fincher read Walker's original script which he was sent by mistake and agreed to direct as long as the ending remained. Executives were opposed to the script's bleak ending and mandated a more mainstream, upbeat outcome. His script was optioned by an Italian film company which underwent financial difficulties and sold the rights on to New Line Cinema. Walker, an aspiring writer, wrote Seven based on his experiences of moving from a suburban setting to New York City in the late 1980s, during a period of rising crime and drug addiction. Set in a crime-ridden, unnamed city, Seven 's plot follows disenchanted, near-retirement detective William Somerset (Freeman) and his new partner, the recently transferred David Mills (Pitt), as they attempt to stop a serial killer before he can complete a series of murders based on the seven deadly sins. It stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and John C.

Seven (stylized as Se7en) is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker.

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