![]() ![]() ![]() The film proper opens as Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) arrives at a ranch-resort in Victorville, California, 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles on the edge of the Mojave Desert, in the company of producer John Houseman (Sam Troughton) and an assistant, Rita Alexander (Lily Collins). Much can be said about this subject, but we will have to limit ourselves.Īn initial title in Mank informs us that Welles was brought to Hollywood in 1940 at the age of 24 by a struggling RKO Pictures and “given absolute creative autonomy, would suffer no oversight, and could make any movie, about any subject, with any collaborator he wished…” Mankiewicz and his role, or purported role, in the creation of Citizen Kane (1941), the first film directed by and featuring Orson Welles. Mank, directed by David Fincher ( Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Gone Girl) from a 1994 screenplay written by his late father, Jack Fincher, is a biographical drama about American screenwriter Herman J. ![]()
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