With Mank, director David Fincher realized a long-held dream to shoot a screenplay by his father Jack Fincher, who died in 2003.
It’s story set in the Hollywood’s Golden Age and against the making of Orson Welles’ masterpiece Citizen Kane, a movie many consider still the greatest ever made.
But as members of the ensemble cast say during a conversation about the film at Deadline Contenders Film awards-season event, the Netflix film is not about Welles but rather the man who he hired to write it, Herman Mankiewicz, who is played by Oscar winner Gary Oldman.“It was a marvelous screenplay.
Jack Fincher I felt had really done his homework and captured Mank,” said Oldman, zooming in from London and offering a quote referring to the man he plays:
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