Marking his first feature film since 2014’s Gone Girl, David Fincher will finally return this year with the highly-anticipated Mank. A black-and-white biopic of Citizen Kane scribe Herman J. Mankiewicz scripted by the director’s late father, Jack Fincher, and led by Gary Oldman, the Netflix production is reportedly skipping out on fall festivals, but when will it arrive? Today finally brings an update from seasoned screenwriter Eric Roth, who produced the film.
In an appearance on Pardon My Take (and a hat tip to Joe Frady for spotting), Roth reveals the film is set for an October release on Netflix. “It’s an incredible piece,” he says. “He did a black-and-white ’30s movie. It looks like a ’30s movie and feels like one.” He also joked, “Six people will go see it, but it’s pretty amazing.” Later in the chat, he also revealed a Truffaut-style biopic on The Doors...
In an appearance on Pardon My Take (and a hat tip to Joe Frady for spotting), Roth reveals the film is set for an October release on Netflix. “It’s an incredible piece,” he says. “He did a black-and-white ’30s movie. It looks like a ’30s movie and feels like one.” He also joked, “Six people will go see it, but it’s pretty amazing.” Later in the chat, he also revealed a Truffaut-style biopic on The Doors...
- 6/12/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Like many people, I had a Doors phase. In particular, I had a Jim Morrison phase that was kicked off when I read Danny Sugarman's "No One Here Gets Out Alive". Morrison's story is about as archetypical a rock and roll story as there is, and Sugarman was a true believer. Over the years, my feelings about them evolved, and now I find that I love what the Doors meant to me more than I actually love The Doors. They had such a brief moment, and at such a key moment in the overall story of rock'n'roll, that it's hard to...
- 5/21/2013
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
From 1972 through 1978, I was the leader, songwriter, and guitarist of The Planets, a New York City band. We debuted opening for The New York Dolls at Mercer Arts Center on December 19, 1972. Over the next several years, we shared bills with Kiss, The Ramones, Blondie, Television, Eddie & The Hot Rods, etc. at Cbgb and Max's Kansas City. I have many a tale from those days. Jumping into the middle of our "career," I'll start with the following episode: If you are a hardcore Doors fan, you'll likely recognize the name Danny Sugerman. Danny was Doors Freak Number One! He latched onto them as a teenager. He lived in their hometown. He was unrelenting. He simply and completely inserted himself into the heart of the band...
- 6/29/2010
- by Binky Philips
- Huffington Post
The Val Kilmer/Oliver Stone portrayal was built on hype all long, argues John Patterson
The first thing I thought when I heard about When You're Strange, Tom Dicillo's new Johnny Depp-narrated film about Jim Morrison and the Doors, was that it had taken the band a full 20 years to recover from that movie Oliver Stone made about them; you know, the one with Billy Idol in it. And, oh yeah, Val Kilmer.
I missed the Doors the first time round, when they probably were pretty magical (the more naive you were in 1967, the more appealingly dangerous they would have seemed; they were born to foment high-school revolution), but I was around for the first big revival, in 1980, not seven years after Morrison, bearded, bloated and blasted, expired aged 27 in his Parisian bathtub. That summer the Doors' Greatest Hits album, lately unleashed, enjoyed wall-to-wall play on suburban radio stations across America,...
The first thing I thought when I heard about When You're Strange, Tom Dicillo's new Johnny Depp-narrated film about Jim Morrison and the Doors, was that it had taken the band a full 20 years to recover from that movie Oliver Stone made about them; you know, the one with Billy Idol in it. And, oh yeah, Val Kilmer.
I missed the Doors the first time round, when they probably were pretty magical (the more naive you were in 1967, the more appealingly dangerous they would have seemed; they were born to foment high-school revolution), but I was around for the first big revival, in 1980, not seven years after Morrison, bearded, bloated and blasted, expired aged 27 in his Parisian bathtub. That summer the Doors' Greatest Hits album, lately unleashed, enjoyed wall-to-wall play on suburban radio stations across America,...
- 6/25/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
BUSH frontman GAVIN ROSSDALE has turned down an offer to play THE DOORS' singer JIM MORRISON in a new film about the band. But a spokesperson for Bush said they specifically performed the Doors track BREAK ON THROUGH at their recent sell-out concert at London's SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE for casting scouts from America, who were in the audience. The movie will be based on the book, WONDERLAND AVENUE, the classic Doors biography by Danny Sugarman. Filming is not expected to begin for another two years, which the Bush spokesperson speculated "may be just right for Gavin to take a step in that direction". Rossdale himself said, however, that he would be content to provide music for the soundtrack, admitting that it was "almost like a dream come true" to be considered for the role.
- 5/29/2000
- WENN
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