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Howard Kelly "Jack" Fincher (December 6, 1930 – April 10, 2003) was an American screenwriter and journalist who had written for various magazines and periodicals, notably as San Francisco bureau chief of Life magazine.
Howard Kelly «Jack» Fincher (Bonham, Estados Unidos; 6 de diciembre de 1930-Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos; 10 de abril de 2003) fue un guionista y periodista estadounidense que escribió para varias revistas y publicaciones periódicas, destacándose como jefe de las oficinas de la revista Life en la ciudad de San Francisco.
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. His films, most of which are psychological thrillers, have collectively grossed over $2.1 billion worldwide and have received numerous accolades, including three nominations for the Academy Awards for Best Director.
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In 1940, Orson Welles is given complete creative freedom for his next project by RKO. For the screenplay, Welles recruits Herman J. Mankiewicz, who is in Victorville, California, recovering from a broken leg he sustained in a car crash. Herman dictates the script to his secretary, Rita Alexander, who notices similarities between the main character ...
Gary Oldman as Herman J. MankiewiczAmanda Seyfried as Marion DaviesLily Collins as Rita Alexander, Herman's secretary, from whom another character, Susan Alexander Kane, gets her name.Arliss Howard as Louis B. MayerDevelopment
Mank was officially announced in July 2019, when David Fincher said he would direct the film, with Gary Oldman set to star. The screenplay was written by Fincher's father, Jack Fincher, prior to his death in 2003. It was originally going to be Fincher's follow-up to The Game (1997) with Kevin Spacey and Jodie Foster set to star but never came to fruition due to Fincher's insistence on shooting in black-and-white. Additional casting was announced in October, with Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins,...
Writing
The 120-page draft of the initial script revealed that Jack Fincher closely followed a claim voiced by Pauline Kael in her 1971 New Yorker article "Raising Kane" that Welles did not deserve screenwriting credit. The article angered many critics, including Welles's friend and fellow filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich who rebutted Kael's claims point by point in "The Kane Mutiny", an October 1972 article for Esquire. Her argument was discredited by several film scholars through the years, including Ro...
Filming
Filming began on November 1, 2019, in Los Angeles. It also took place in Victorville, California, and wrapped on February 4, 2020. The film was shot in black and white on Fincher's preferred RED digital camera and made reference to the aesthetics of Citizen Kane cinematographer Gregg Toland. Dance stated that a scene involving a drunken Mankiewicz took over 100 takes, while Seyfried said that one of her scenes took over a week and 200 takes to shoot. She stated, "It does feel like Groundhog D...
Mank was released in a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 13, 2020,before beginning to stream worldwide on Netflix on December 4, 2020. IndieWire reported the film played in 75 theaters during its opening weekend and did "similar business" as other new indie releases The Climb and Ammonite, which each averaged about $300 pe...
Critical response
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 83% of 351 critic reviews were positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Sharply written and brilliantly performed, Mank peers behind the scenes of Citizen Kane to tell an old Hollywood story that could end up being a classic in its own right." According to Metacritic, which compiled 52 reviews and calculated a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, the film received "generally favorable reviews"....
RKO 281, a 1999 HBO film based on the 1996 Oscar-nominated documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane.
Mank at IMDbMank at AllMovieMank at Rotten TomatoesMank at History vs. HollywoodMank es una película de drama biográfico estadounidense de 2020 sobre el guionista Herman J. Mankiewicz y su desarrollo del guion de Citizen Kane (1941). Dirigida por David Fincher, basada en un guion de su padre Jack Fincher, la película fue producida por Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski y Eric Roth.
19 de nov. de 2020 · On his desk, beside his keyboard, Fincher keeps a black-and-white photograph of Jack at rest — on a sofa, hands clasped, eyes closed. It’s a shot that Fincher took in 1976, when he was just 14.
Jack enlisted in the Air Force in 1950 and settled in the San Francisco Bay Area of CA upon his discharge. He was a talented writer and essayist and had numerous articles and essays published in Readers Digest, Saturday Review, The Smithsonian, and other leading publications.
