The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
Gone Girl. It’s a rare filmmaker today who has such a solid list of credits.
Fincher’s latest film, the much-hyped Netflix offering
Mank, is not a thriller but is, rather, the latest contribution to another major genre, the movie about Hollywood movie. Hollywood has always loved making movies about Hollywood, for the same reason that Narcissus loved looking at his reflection.
Mank is about Herman Mankiewicz, nicknamed Mank, who, depending on which story you believe, either co-wrote
Citizen Kane with Orson Welles or wrote it alone, only to see Welles slap his own name on the script.