Red Mosquito

Strat wrote:i hope rian explores the lineage of the parents a bit more here though.

Gary Oldman and David Fincher are teaming to tell the story of Herman Mankiewicz, the newspaper man turned screenwriter who is best known for collaborating with Orson Welles on Citizen Kane.

Mank, the nickname for Mankiewicz, is set up at Netflix, with Fincher making it his next feature with plans to shoot this fall. Oldman will portray the screenwriter who had an outsized influence in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Keeping in with the classic Hollywood vibe, the film will be in black and white.

Getting Mank before cameras has been a 20-plus-year journey for Fincher, who initially wanted to tackle the story after making his 1997 feature The Game. The director’s father, Jack Fincher, also a newspaper man, wrote the script.

Cean Chaffin, Fincher’s longtime cohort who has worked on the filmmaker’s movies since The Game, is producing. Also producing is Doug Urbanski, who was nominated for an Oscar for 2017's Darkest Hour.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Strat wrote:Hell yea. I can't wait for this.

bada wrote:I still need to see the first It.