Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt based on the 1986 non-fiction book of the same name. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., and Anthony Edwards. It tells the story of the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Zodiac received mostly positive reviews, with praise for its writing, directing, acting, and historical accuracy.
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Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt based on the 1986 non-fiction book of the same name by Robert Graysmith. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., and Anthony Edwards, with Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Lynch, and Dermot Mulroney in supporting roles. It tells the story of the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Zodiac received mostly positive reviews, with praise for its writing, directing, acting, and historical accuracy. It grossed over USD 84. 7 million worldwide on a production budget of USD 65 million. In a 2016 critics’ poll conducted by the BBC, Zodiac was voted the 12th greatest film of the 21st century. It was nominated for several awards, including the Saturn Award for Best Action, Adventure or Thriller Film. The case remains one of the United States’ most infamous unsolved crimes. The Zodiac killer taunted police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers. In 1978, the killer threatens to kill a dozen people unless his coded message containing his identity is published. The San Francisco Chronicle publishes the letters, and a married couple deciphers one. The killer stabs law student Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard at Lake Berryessa in Napa County.
In 1971, Detectives Dave Toschi, Armstrong, and Jack Mulanax question Arthur Leigh Allen, a suspect in the Vallejo case, with the same logo used by the killer and Toschi heavily suspects him. However, a handwriting expert insists that Allen did not write the letter, even though Allen is said to be ambidextrous. In the film, Grays Smith gives a television interview about the book he is writing about the case, and gives a TV interview about his own investigation, in which he provides his own information on the case. He also shares information with the Riverside Police Department that the killer might have been active before the initial killings, angering Toschi and Armstrong. The movie ends on a cliffhanging cliffhanger with the killer still on the loose in the city of San Francisco’s Presidio Heights district. It is released on September 14, 2007. It has been released on Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S. and in the UK on September 17, 2007, and on September 18, 2008 in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It will be released on DVD in Australia on September 19, 2008. It had a release date of September 20, 2008, in Australia, and in Europe on September 21, 2009, in the Netherlands on September 22, 2008 and in Germany on September 23, 2009 and in France on September 24, 2008 on September 25, 2009.
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