Mills holds Doe at gunpoint while Somerset intercepts the driver, who has been instructed to bring a box to them. Somerset suspects that the murders were the work of the same man, a man murdering people who have committed the seven deadly sins.Two detectives, one about to leave and one entering find themselves following a series of murders, they find clues linking the deaths and the seven sins. After forming a friendship with Somerset, Tracy confides to Somerset that she is pregnant and has yet to tell Mills, as she is unhappy with the city and feels it is no place to raise a child. Although the city or state was never mentioned by any of the characters during the film, a sign can be seen in the background of a pizza restaurant called "New York Pizza" in which Somerset and Mills visit. The restaurant ironically is located in The 'head in a box' ending continued to worry the studio after filming was completed. After the first cut of the film was shown to the studio, they attempted to mitigate the bleakness of the ending by replacing Mills' wife's head with that of a dog, or by not having Mills fire on John Doe.


At the time, Fincher had not read a script for a year and a half since the frustrating experience of making When New Line realized that they had sent Fincher the wrong draft, the President of Production, The film was shot over a long period of 55 days. It stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey and John C. McGinley. Doe then says that his sin was The primary influence for the film's screenplay came from The ending of the screenplay, with the head in the box, was originally part of an earlier draft that New Line had rejected, instead opting for an ending that involved more traditional elements of a detective thriller film with more action-oriented elements. His twisted agenda involves choosing seven victims who represent egregious examples of transgressions of each of the Seven Deadly Sins. A film about two homicide detectives' (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt) desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American neo-noir psychological crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" (Kevin Spacey) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. Se7en only piqued David Fincher’s interest after New Line accidentally sent him the original draft with the head in the box ending.

Somerset opens the box and, in a sudden panic, warns Mills to stay back. Everything needed to be as authentic and raw as possible." The sin of Gluttony comes first and … However, both Fincher and Pitt continued to fight for the original ending.The studio liked the sequence and suggested he stay with that. The screenplay was influenced by the time Walker spent in Soon-to-retire detective William Somerset is partnered with short-tempered but idealistic David Mills, who has recently moved to the city with his wife Tracy. Doe offers to take the detectives to the final two victims and confess to the murders, but only under specific terms, or he will The detectives follow Doe's directions to a remote deserted location. He then views himself as akin to the Sword of God, handing out horrific punishment to these sinners. The movie follows the cops, their family and tracking down the mass murderer who delivers an unforgettable ending.This thriller portrays the exploits of a deranged serial killer. Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.Taking place in a nameless city, Se7en follows the story of two homicide detectives tracking down a sadistic serial killer (Two police detectives - one, Somerset, about to retire and the other, Mills, just transferred into the precinct - investigate the murder of an obese man. Somerset sympathizes, having had a similar situation with his ex-girlfriend many years earlier, and advises her to tell Mills only if she plans to keep the child. Fincher instead asked Cooper to "pretend we've never met and come back and propose something else", according to Cooper.The film was well received by critics and holds an approval rating of 81% on Between September 2006 and October 2007, a series of seven comic books were published by The opening credit music is a spliced sample of an uncredited remix of the