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David Fincher is place the biopicMankfor Netflix aboutCitizen Kaneco - author Herman Mankiewicz , with Gary Oldman set to asterisk . Although Mankiewicz is best make love as Orson Welles screenwriting partner onCitizen Kane- for which they received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay - he worked on many other film throughout his calling , includingThe Wizard of Oz , The Pride of the YankeesandDuck Soup .
The Mankiewicz biopic will be Fincher ’s first characteristic picture since 2014’sGone Girl . Since then , he ’s worked mostly in television producing and directing Netflix shows , includingHouse of Cards , Mindhunter , andLove , Death & Robots . Fincher has considerable experience in the biopic genre too : he directed Oscar - winnerThe Social Networkin 2010 , and was set to directSteve Jobsbeforehe was replaced by Danny Boyle .
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Varietyreports that Fincher ’s latest biopic is titledMank- a consultation to Mankiewicz ’s moniker - and is base on a hand penned by the director ’s tardy male parent Jack Fincher before his destruction in 2003 . Fincher will bring forth the film alongside his manufacturer wife Ceán Chaffin and Douglas Urbanski , and specify to take the pic in dark and white with production slated to begin this November . Plot details are currently unidentified , butVarietyreports that sources close to the project say the moving picture will rivet on Mankiewicz ’s participation with the development of the playscript forCitizen Kane , which saw he and Welles almost come to blows over who should be credited .
Star Gary Oldman is certainly no stranger to a biopic . Over the course of his career he ’s impersonate many real - life sentence masses , including punk rock rocking chair Sid Vicious inSid & Nancy , composer Ludwig van Beethoven inImmortal Beloved , and presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald inJFK . More recently , Oldman alternate the theatrical role of Winston Churchill inDarkest Hour , which pull ahead him an Oscar for good actor , and will shortly play Jürgen Mossack , Centennial State - founder of Panamanian natural law business firm Mossack Fonseca , inThe Laundromat- another coming Netflix productionabout the Panama Papers dirt , directed by Steven Soderbergh . It ’ll be interesting to see what Oldman wee of Mankiewicz - a man discover by his peers as both witching and witty but a hard juicer too .
Netflix seems taken with the biopic genre recently . In addition toThe Laundromat , the streaming giant also late releasedThe Dirt – abiopic about ill-famed rock dance band Mötley Crüe . It ’s also teaming up with fabled theater director Martin Scorsese to make abiopic about mob enforcer Frank SheerancalledThe Irishman , and developinga Hulk Hogan biopicwith Chris Hemsworth set to asterisk . We ’ll update you on the advance ofMankwhen more entropy is revealed .
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informant : Variety
