Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentDavid Fincher’s “Mank” isn’t a work of history. It’s a film first and foremost.“If you’re talking about the truth, you have to circumnavigate some of the fact,” Fincher tells Variety in this week’s cover story.And yet, “Mank” sticks much closer to the truth than most fact-based films, if the Variety Archives are any indication.Variety in the 1930s and ’40s was like a community bulletin board: Aside from covering the business, reporters wrote about daily life in a company town.
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