Tanner Bolt : I swear, you two are the most fucked up people I've ever known and I specialize in fucked up. 29. The timeline below shows where the character Tanner Bolt appears in Gone Girl. But Bolt & Bolt was quite the opposite—it was dignified, lawyerly" (29.9). Remember Billy Flynn, the hotshot celebrity lawyer played by Richard Gere in the film version of the musical Chicago?That's our man Tanner Bolt, the choice attorney of jerk husbands suspected of killing their wives. Gone Girl (2014) Tyler Perry as Tanner Bolt. Despite Boney's description of him as "'a last-ditch guy […] the guy guilty people call in'" (35.28), he really knows how to give 'em the old razzle-dazzle. Tanner Bolt. To the people who are familiar with David Fincher's work, this is not the case with Gone Girl. This is clearly established in the theatrical trailer and may have thrown off some potential viewers. Even Nick seems to feel this way: "I pre-hated Tanner Bolt so much that I expected his office to look like a Miami Vice set. The first act of the movie is the run-of-the-mill wife gone missing, the husband accused of killing her plot. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Tanner himself is even a pretty likeable guy—he's "a confident man, the best in his field, a man who liked his life" (29.43).