Hollywood star Ben Affleck’s Gone Girl, which was slated to release alongside Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s big-ticket entertainer Happy New Year, will now hit the screens on October 31.
The David Fincher-directorial was to release on October 24, a day after Diwali, the same day Happy New Year is set to release.
“Ben Affleck’s much-awaited and much-acclaimed Gone Girl to release in India October 31,” a statement said.
The movie, which has received positive feedback at the US box office, is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn.
In the film, Affleck stars as a writer who is caught in a media circus when his wife goes missing and the police suspect he is responsible. Rosamund Pike plays his wife.
Actors Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, and Carrie Coon are also part of the movie, which had its world premiere on the opening night of the 52nd New York Film Festival last month. In the US, the movie released on October 3.
