Mank

The Next Reel Film Podcast · Feb 27, 2025 · 1h 4m · transcript

“You can make the world swear King Kong is ten stories tall and Mary Pickford a virgin at 40, yet you can’t convince starving voters that a turncoat socialist is a menace to everything California holds dear? You’re barely trying.”

David Fincher's Personal Connection to Old Hollywood

After decades of development, David Fincher finally brought his late father Jack Fincher's screenplay about Herman J. Mankiewicz to life. Originally planned for production in the late 1990s with Kevin Spacey and Jodie Foster attached, the project stalled when studios balked at Fincher's insistence on shooting in…