David Fincher never studied film school and earned a living by cleaning in restaurants when he started in the film industry. However, his neighbor was George Lucas, and during his career he directed eleven films, several of which are often described as masterpieces. Seven, Fight Club, Social network, Disappeared and now, according to some critics, the latest could be among them Mank, filmed for Netflix. In addition, Fincher has signed an exclusive four-year contract with the largest streaming service.
The director last came up with a new film seven years ago, which does not mean that he has not been active in Hollywood since. It is closely connected with the very beginnings of the original Netflix content, for which he created the first original series, an award-winning political drama. Domek z karet (House of Cards). A few years later, he acted essentially as a showrunner in the drama about the beginnings of the psychological profiling of serial killers. Mindhunter and last produced an animated sci-fi series Love, Death & Robots.
In this context, the information is that Fincher has signed an exclusive agreement with Netflix, in fact, only an official confirmation of the longer-lasting status. The first unverified reports about it appeared more than a year ago, when there was talk of a nine-digit agreement with an unknown creator. Such before signed by, for example, the creators Games of Thrones David Benioff a DB Weiss, which will film an adaptation of Chinese science fiction for Netflix Three Body Problem, nebo Ryan Murphy, creator Ratchedové.
We still don’t know much about the details of Fincher’s contract with the streaming service. How he pointed out magazine The Playlist, the director himself only confirmed its existence in a recent interview for a French magazine Premiere. In part, he joked that his next project would be largely determined by success Manka, black and white drama about Hollywood in the 1930s.
In 2014, David Fincher introduced the thriller Disappeared
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“Depending on how Mank is accepted, I will either go to Netflix to ask carefully what I can do to redeem myself, or I will go there with the attitude of an arrogant coward who will demand more black-and-white films.” Fincher said. He added more seriously that his main task is to “deliver content – whatever that means – that will gain viewers for them.”
Hard to judge what all a good acceptance project like Mank includes because, for example, the budget is not known. The critical success of a “love letter To the citizen of Kane“However, it is considerable for the time being and some reviews speak of another masterpiece by its director. They emphasize both the acting performance of the main actor Gary Oldman and the style in many respects referring directly to the film, which he discusses, ie Občana Kanea.
The films of the 85-year-old Hollywood filmmaker are often underestimated. For example Social network is a bit of a judicial drama about the origins of Facebook. Although the theme cannot be denied the insight into the beginnings of the social giant, few people assumed that it would be a comprehensive generational statement that was perfectly (if not more) relevant even ten years after the premiere.
The same was true of the thriller Disappeared with a criminal plot revolving around the very suspicious disappearance of the hero’s wife slide. The work of the same name by Gillian Flynn is very unconventional in itself, but the film adaptation adds to its urgency. In addition, in the surprisingly black-humorous presentation, he emphasizes other aspects such as the influence of modern media.
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Mank it is very similar. At first glance, the project, which looks back on the history of Hollywood with love, seems like a very obvious attempt to win as many film awards as possible. But Fincher has not yet made such a subversive film, and given his fanatical perfectionism, it’s not easy to imagine that that would change. The partially sentimental historical excursion is thus supplemented by strong criticism of the big media and Hollywood, which brings a very relevant topic for the present.
At the same time, during the filming, Fincher’s obsession for detail and special work with the actors manifested itself more than ever before. A few days ago, for example, interviews with actors and creators circled the film world Manka, according to which one of the main scenes was more than a hundred years old before the director was satisfied with it. When Oldman complained to Fincher that he had performed the same scene a hundred times, the director reportedly replied: “Yeah, I know, but this is the first time. Reset! ”
With the signing of a four-year contract with Netflix, David Fincher officially joins the list of creators for whom working for the world’s largest streaming service means wider creative possibilities. At the same time, Netflix is no longer the only platform where filmmakers have better conditions than in the classic film industry.
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Recently, for example, Apple signed a major contract for exclusive access to the projects of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. For starters, the technology giant will give them about $ 200 million for a sweeping western Killers of the Flower Moon, which is often referred to as The Irish from Apple. Again, this is a production that traditional studios were not willing to pay for.
David Fincher is due to a reluctance to experiment in a recent interview for Total Film quite sharply criticized. Currently, according to him, there are only two film seasons, summer with “happy meat” blockbusters and autumn to winter with price adepts. If the project does not fit into one of the two, it is said to be very difficult to gain more interest in the studies. The rest of the year is set aside for pictures that are not expected to be much.
The director does not even call the economically too clever move a move Manka, although it simply fits into the “Oscar season”. After all, it will not be an obviously spectator film. We will be able to see for ourselves on December 4, when this is true, and whether Fincher did not come up with one of the best films of the year, despite the bizarreness, as the first reviews suggest. Mank comes out on Netflix.
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