Did they show what's inside the box?
Brad Pitt, "With
Seven, I said, ‘I will do it on one condition – the - - - - - - - stays in the box. Put in the contract that the - - - - - stays in the box.’ Actually, there was a second thing, too: ‘He’s got to - - - - - the killer in the end. He doesn’t do the ‘right’ thing, he does the thing of passion.’ Those two things are in the contract. Cut to:
Seven has been put together, and they’ve tested it. They go, ‘You know, he would be much more heroic if he didn’t - - - - - John Doe – and it’s too unsettling with the - - - - - - - in the box. We think maybe if it was the dog's - - - - - - - in the box…"
David Fincher, "I just said, ‘Long after we’re all gone — 50, 60 years from now — a bunch of 20-somethings will be at a cocktail party talking about a movie that they saw on the late show the night before … the ‘- - - - - -in-the-box movie.’ I said, ‘
This is the - - - - - - -in-the-box movie. Every person I’ve talked to … knows it as the - - -- - - -in-the-box movie. You can’t take the - - - - - - in the box out of the - - - - - -in-the-box movie.’ And he thought about it, and he kind of smiled and said, ‘OK. Do it."