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David Fincher has reportedly signed on to direct his first feature film since Gone Girl in 2014, a biopic about the contentious development of the script for Citizen Kane, one of Fincher’s favorite films, by the brilliant and prolific but troubled screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewiczand legendary director Orson Welles. They both shared the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
And he is doing it for Netflix, the streaming service and production company that has granted him artistic freedom and for whom he has developed and produced the series House of Cards and Mindhunter, and executive produced the animated series Love, Death, and Robots.
Master Actor Gary Oldman will play the titular role, Mankiewicz, or “Mank“, as he was nicknamed.
The film project inception dates back to 1993 and is based on a script by Fincher’s late father, Howard “Jack” Fincher. Jack Fincher was a journalist, writer and essayist specialized in science, a former San Francisco bureau chief for LIFE magazine, and a devoted cinephile. In 1997, he was commissioned to draft a screenplay for a Howard Hughes biopic, with Kevin Spacey attached to direct. But this project was later absorbed by The Aviator project scripted by John Logan, whi
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Until now, Tom Pelphrey had yet to realize the historical significance of a key scene in David Fincher’s Mank. Towards the end of the film, Pelphrey’s Joseph Mankiewicz visits Gary Oldman’s Herman “Mank” Mankiewicz to discuss his reaction to Mank’s Citizen Kane script, and as the two brothers carried on a conversation, Pelphrey delivered a line that included one of cinema’s most famous words: Rosebud. Now that he’s 9 or 10 months removed from the project, Pelphrey can finally see the forest for the trees.
“Oh my god. I didn’t even think about that. Wow. When you work on something like this, you really try to do your job to the best of your ability, and you really just focus on the task at hand,” Pelphrey tells The Hollywood Reporter. “You don’t really stop and consider the whole big thing — at least I didn’t. But you don’t want to get too swept up in that or get intimidated. You want to just come in, focus on your work and put your head down. And yeah, now is the time to sit back and say, ‘I got to say Rosebud on-screen with Gary Oldman, in a David Fincher film.’ Pretty cool.”
When Pelphrey first FaceTimed with Fincher about the role of the younger Mankiewicz brother, he was shooting Ozark in Atlanta, and sensing that the role was still up in the air, h
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Davina Baynes
November 23, 2018
Absolute Symphony Chat
I lately had depiction enormous joy of interviewing the feature Thomas Francis Murphy. Poet has worked on movies and shows such as 12 Years a Slave, Free Roller of Jones, Mindhunter, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story. We talked about his unconventional pathway towards duty up activity in his mid 30s, Dayton, River, his pursuit, music obtain much go into detail besides.
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