This opening sequence instantly launches the local police and the audience intoGone Girl’s central mystery.

But its far from the first scene to take place chronologically.

Here’s what the movie would look like if it played out in chronological order.

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Two days later, on the 10th, Amy writes about the meeting in her diary.

Nick is entranced by the fact that Amy was the inspiration for her parents popularAmazing Amyseries of childrens books.

After they start dating, they quickly fall in love.

Ben Affleck as Nick in front of Amy’s missing poster in Gone Girl

Engaging in an extramarital affair with another woman makes Nick even more distant in his relationship with Amy.

The novel goes into more detail about Amys awareness of the affair.

As she tries to keep him from leaving the house, he shoves her.

Nick meets Amy at a party in Gone Girl

Nick comes home, and she is nowhere to be found.

Against his better judgment, instead of revealing Amys crimes in the interview, Nick announces the pregnancy.

The Gone Girl story has many resemblances to the Scott Peterson case.

An edited image of Brad Pitt in Se7en and Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl.

But did Gillian Flynn really base her novel on Laci Peterson’s murder?

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Nick and Amy in a library in Gone Girl

Amy in the kitchen in Gone Girl

Nick and Andie embrace in Gone Girl

Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy (Rosamund Pike) having an argument in Gone Girl

Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne looking sad as Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne hangs his head in Gone Girl (2014)

Collage of Rosamund Pike from Gone Girl, Wheel of Time and Pride & Prejudice

Nick poses with Amy’s missing poster in Gone Girl

Nick looking concerned in Gone Girl

Amy (Rosamund Pike) and Desi (Neil Patrick Harris) watching TV in Gone Girl

Amy (Rosamund Pike) comes home to Nick (Ben Affleck) and they embrace in Gone Girl

Rosamund Pike Amy looks up at Nick in Gone Girl

Amy (Rosamund Pike) cutting her hair in Gone Girl

Scott Peterson and Nick and Amy Dunne in Gone Girl

Headshot Of Ben Affleck

Headshot Of Rosamund Pike In The 77th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs)

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