
Before he became one of the greatest filmmakers on the planet. David Fincher was a hotshot music-video director. Fincher’s music-video era overlapped slightly with the rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but Fincher never directed a Chili Peppers video. He never even cast Flea in one of his movies, and Flea shows up in auteur directors’ movies all the time. That means that the world has never gotten to see the Chili Peppers through the eyes of David Fincher — a true loss for humanity. It’s about to be rectified, since Fincher has directed an upcoming Love Death + Robots short about a 2003 Chili Peppers show, in which the band members are played by string puppets.