Flynn wrote the script for a film adaptation of Gone Girl after 20th Century Fox purchased the film rights for $1.5 million. By the end of that year, Gone Girl had sold over two million copies in print and digital editions, according to the book's publisher. Culture writer Dave Itzkoff wrote that the novel was, except for the Fifty Shades trilogy, the biggest literary phenomenon of 2012. 1 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list for eight weeks. Gone Girl (2012) was released in June 2012 and concerns Nick Dunne, a small town Missouri creative writing professor whose wife, Amy, disappears on their fifth wedding anniversary.Flynn made a cameo appearance in the film. The cast included Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Drea de Matteo, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Sean Bridgers. Dark Places was adapted into a feature film, written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Dark Places (2009) is about a woman who investigates whether or not her incarcerated brother was truly responsible for the murder of their family in the 1980s, which happened when she was a child during the era of panic about Satanic ritual abuse.Sharp Objects was adapted into a 2018 television miniseries, starring Amy Adams. In 2007, the book was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar for Best First Novel by an American Writer, Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie, CWA New Blood and Ian Fleming Steel Daggers, winning in the last two categories. The book was partly inspired by Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. Themes include dysfunctional families, violence and self-harm. Sharp Objects (2006) revolves around a serial killer in a Missouri town, and the reporter who has returned to her hometown from Chicago to cover the event.She has written three novels and one short story. When Flynn was working for Entertainment Weekly, she was also writing novels during her free time.

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