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Mar 15, 2021 · The main story—written by Fincher’s late father Jack Fincher, before his death in 2003—is based on the true story of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, or Mank (played by Gary Oldman ), who is...
- Anna Menta
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Dec 4, 2020 · Mank (2020) – Transcript. December 4, 2020. The movie follows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz's tumultuous development of Orson Welles' iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941) David Fincher’s new film, Mank, is a bio-pic of Herman J. Mankiewicz’s years in Hollywood, centered on his work on Citizen Kane and based on a script by Fincher ...
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Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin , Douglas Urbanski , and Eric Roth .
- $25 million
- English
- United States
- November 13, 2020 (United States)
Dec 3, 2020 · Dense with allusions, references, and casual name-dropping, Mank is both steeped in Hollywood lore and bold in its lack of explanation of said lore. Fincher employs a merciless storytelling ...
- Christina Newland
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Dec 4, 2020 · The movie flashes back frequently to a story that takes place about 10 years before the “present,” in the early 1930s, when Upton Sinclair (portrayed in Mank by Bill Nye in a delightful cameo ...
Dec 4, 2020 · Richard Brody reviews David Fincher’s film “Mank,” which tells the story of the making of “Citizen Kane,” and of the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, played in the bio-pic by Gary Oldman.
Apr 19, 2021 · To twist the knife, Mank invents two major plot points: First, that Mankiewicz gave Thalberg the idea to hire paid actors to play “real” Sinclair voters—“You can make people believe that ...
