Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Citizen Kane. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann, and Charles Dance. Mank had a limited theatrical release on November 13, 2020, and began streaming on Netflix on December 4, 2020.
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Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Citizen Kane. Directed by David Fincher, based on a screenplay by his late father Jack Fincer, the film was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann, and Charles Dance. Mank had a limited theatrical release on November 13, 2020, and began streaming on Netflix on December 4, 2020. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the direction, cinematography, production design, and the performances. 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 accident.
In 1930, Herman visits an MGM location where he and the female lead, Marion Davies, recognize each other. In 1933, Herman and his wife Sara attend Louis B. Mayer’s birthday party at Hearst Castle with many Hollywood bigwigs. They discuss the rise of Nazi Germany and the upcoming gubernatorial election, in particular candidate Upton Sinclair. Herman and Marion go for a stroll, where they bond over discussions on politics and the film industry. In 1934, Herman begins working at MGM under Mayer. The studio produces propaganda films for a smear campaign, funded by Hearst, against Sinclair. In 1939, Hearst tells him an allegory about a monkey and an organ grinder and sees him out as an unfit court jester. He offers him a buy-out from the studio and offers him credit for the script, declaring it his greatest work. Many other Hollywood icons are portrayed, including George S. Kaufman, Josef Von Sternfbo, Jose Garbo, Greta Garbo and Josef Garbo.
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