Orson Welles haunts the new, full-length trailer for David Fincher's Mank
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Mank, David Fincher’s first new film in six years, received a stylish teaser a few weeks back, a preview of a film that aims to satirize ‘30s Hollywood in both its story and its dreamy, throwback aesthetic. Today, Netflix dropped a full trailer for the anticipated drama, and it’s every bit as disorienting.
An onslaught of monochrome memories, the trailer swirls through the story of writer Herman J. Mankiewicz as he rises and falls in the eyes of geniuses, money men, mistresses, and loved ones. As he scrambles to write Citizen Kane, the film that will come to define his legacy, the specter of rising filmmaker Orson Welles haunts his booze-addled mind.