Gary Oldman is told to “tell the story you know” in the latest trailer for the Netflix film about Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J.
Mankiewicz. Mank, directed by David Fincher, chronicles the making of the classic 1941 film through the eyes of the alcoholic playwright.
The black-and-white trailer is shot in the style of the pioneering feature, which is often credited with revolutionising cinematography, editing and narrative structure in filmmaking.
The film recreates and re-evaluates 1930s Hollywood through the eyes of Oldman’s Mankiewicz, who was a scathing social critic, as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane for Orson Welles.
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