Amanda Seyfried and Lily Collins are set to join Gary Oldman in David Fincher’s biographical drama revolving around Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Charles Dance is also cast in the Netflix film, titled Mank’. Oldman will play Mankiewicz in the movie, to be directed by Fincher, his first since 2014’s Gone Girl.
The movie is based on the script by Fincher’s father, Jack, who had written the draft before his death in 2003. The story will follow the troubled development of the Citizen Kane script by Mankiewicz alongside director Orson Welles.
Mankiewicz, a reporter and critic in the 1920s, was recruited by Paramount to come to Hollywood and work in showbiz. (IANS)