Very few big-budget movies have been released in cinemas this year and you could argue that the quality of 𒐪films released in 2020 has been lacking. Think again.
Already we have seen the likes of horror movie Relic, the heart-breaking Babyteeth, and Netflix's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Da 5 Bloods. Due later this year in the US are festival highlights Ammonite, Nomadland, and One Night in Miami (not to mention that, in the UK, 2020 has also included Parasite, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Uncut Gems, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Lighthouse). Potentially the biggest highl♐ight of the year comes in December: David Fincher's Mank arrives on Netflix, and the first reactions have this in line to be an Oscar frontrunner.
"Mank is incredible on so many levels it’s overwhelming," Rian Johnson, director of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars: The Last Jedi and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Knives Out, wrote on Twitter. "I loved it, but more importantly there has never been a movie title this satisfying to say out loud. Mank. Mank mank mank. Do a newsies voice & shout it across the room & it’s the mouth version of cracking your back. A gift." 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Total Film's very own Jane Crowther described the movie a൩s "magnificent". See more reactions below.
ꦐMank isও incredible on so many levels it’s overwhelming, I loved it, but more importantly there has never been a movie title this satisfying to say out loud. Mank. Mank mank mank. Do a newsies voice & shout it across the room & it’s the mouth version of cracking your back. A gift.
David Fincher’s #Mank is magnifi🌳cent. Awards incoming.
MANK is magnificent (manknificent?). Snappy, gorgeous, 𓃲funny, and unapologetically political. Looks and sounds like an old movie in an old movie house, with audio that seems to echo off walls that aren’t actua✃lly there. #Mank @MankFilm pic.twitter.com/pu1QiDzA5t
MANK's top tier. The script is an absolute feast. 🗹And these two are wonderful pic.twitter.com🌟/1rAlgQl09a
I love🦹 that David Fincher’s dad gets sole screenwriting credit on MANK (a good movie about how hard it is for movies to be good)
David Fincher’s #Mank is one helluva production. A smart, riveting trip to a bygone era. An exploration of 30s Hollywood, politics & ideals. Gary Oldman is perfect, Tom Pelphrey is impressive & Amanda Seyfried is wonderful. Photography is gorgeou📖s, score magical. A love letter. pic.twitter.com/yRcQUKBVLl
#MANK is beautifully shot. Erik Messerschmidt's cinematography is exquisitely lush and Trish Summerville's costumes are fantastic. This is a craft-feast, and that score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is glorious. #MANK is exquisitely crafted and a visual delight. #OSCARS pic.twi🉐tter.com/h0FQOdFyyd
#Mank is a🙈 remarkable sight to behold w/ each shot so meticulously well crafted you’ll want to pause the film often just to stare at this thing. A frenetic & authentic throwback that classic film buffs will adore. Are you a lover of provocative Hollywood stories? This is for you pic.twitter.com/39N7fLOOv5
In #MANK, Fincher uses cue marks and other various tools from the time period captured to make the filmed experience feel immersive. The soundtrack warbles at one point durin⛄g a “reel change.” (I𝔉’d like to point out MIke Flanagan did this too in OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL.)
In Mank, Gary Oldman stars as notorious troubled screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the Citizen Kane screenplay for Orson Welles. The authorship of this script has been a longsta♓nding controv𓄧ersy, with Welles giving himself a writing credit despite claims he didn’t contribute anything. Others argue that he did help author the screenplay.
The script for the movie was written in the 1990s by Jack Fincher, David Fincher’s father. Fincher Sr. died in 2003 before the project ever came to fruition, but Netflix greenlit the movie in early 2019. This is Fincher Jr.’s first feature since 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gone Girl in 2014. In the meantime, he’s been producing prestige TV shows like Ho🥂use of Cards and Mindhunter.
The cast of Mank also includes Amanda Seyfried as Hollywood star Marion Davies and Charles Dance as her lover and newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst (who the titular Kane was partly based on). Lily Coll🔴ins plays Mankiewicz's secretary Rita Alexander, while Tom Burke is director Orson W🌸elles.
Mank reaches Netflix on December 4 2020. While we wait, make sure to check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Netflix movies available now.
Jack Shepherd is the former Senior Entertainment Editor of GamesRadar. Jack used to work at 🥂The Independent as a general culture writer before specializing in TV and film for the likes of GR+, Total Film, SFX, and others. You can now find Jack working as a freelanಌce journalist and editor.
