MANK (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour), Amanda Seyfried (Lovelace), Charles Dance (The Imitation Game), Lily Collins (Rules Don’t Apply), Arliss Howard (Moneyball), Tom Pelphrey (Tiger Lily Road), Sam Troughton (The Ritual), Ferdinand Kingsley (Dracula Untold), Tuppence Middleton (Possessor), Tom Burke (The Souvenir), Joseph Cross (Running with Scissors), Jamie McShane (Argo), Toby Leonard Moore (John Wick), Monika Grossman (Iron Sky)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

David Fincher (The Social Network), director, producer; Jack Fincher (film debut), writer; Ceán Chaffin (Fight Club), Eric Roth (film debut) and Douglas Urbanski (Darkest Hour), producers; Trent Reznor (Gone Girl) and Atticus Ross (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), composers; Erik Messerschmidt (In a Dream), cinematographer; Kirk Baxter (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1930s Hollywood, alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Oldman) is commissioned by young filmmaker Orson Welles (Burke) to write a screenplay loosely based on media mogul William Randolph Hearst (Dance) and his young mistress Marion Davies (Seyfried), which would eventually become known as Citizen Kane…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

For his first feature film in six years, David Fincher stunningly brings his late father’s screenplay about writer Herman J. Mankiewicz – who would go on to be credited as co-writer of Citizen Kane – to life, in a beautiful love letter to creativity that’s bound to get loads of attention this awards season.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2020 (AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX)

 

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