Mank Marks David Fincher's Return To Film After 6 Years

Mank (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Filmmaker David Fincher returns to the world of film by directing Mank, a biographical film to be released on Netflix.

Reported by Antara from The Hollywood Reporter, this biographical film tells about the author of Citizen Kane, Herman Mankiewicz, right on the 79th anniversary of Citizen Kane Day.

Mank, nicknamed Mankiewicz, will show 1930s Hollywood being re-evaluated through the eyes of the scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter as he races to finish Citizen Kane's screenplay for Orson Welles.

Gary Oldman will play Mankiewicz, who has had a huge influence in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Amanda Seyfried will also star in the film as Marion Davies. Lily Collins will play Rita Alexander in the film and Charles Dance will play William Randolph Hearst.

Mank also stars Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Monika Gossmann, Arliss Howard, Jamie McShane, Tuppence Middleton, Toby Leonard Moore, Tom Pelphrey, and Sam Troughton.

The journey to get Mank on-camera has been an ordeal for over 20 years for Fincher, who originally wanted to tackle the story after filming The Game (1997).

The director's father, Jack Fincher, who was a newspaper worker, wrote the script for Mank. Cean Chaffin, an old friend of Fincher's who has worked on films together since The Game, is a producer. Doug Urbanski who was nominated for an Oscar for The Darkest Hour (2017) will also step in as producer.

Mank will be Fincher's first film since Gone Girl (2014). There is no official release date for the film, but it will premiere on Netflix this fall.