David Fincher is Returning to Film For the First Time in Five Years, Everyone
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David Fincher is back for the first time in five years.
The veteran filmmaker has announced he will take on the story of Citizen Kane co-writer Herman Mankiewicz for a Netflix feature, marking the director’s first return to film since 2014’s Gone Girl.
Starring Gary Oldman in the titular role, Mank will focus on the controversial dispute over chief authorship of the famed screenplay, where Welles allegedly tried to bribe his co-writer into allowing him to take full credit for the script.