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The Design of ‘Mank : How Costumes and Sets Energized David Fincher’s Homage to Old Hollywood
TheWrap magazine: Costume designer Trish Summerville and production designer Donald Graham Burt take us behind the scenes By Joe McGovern | January 12, 2021 @ 4:17 PM Last Updated: January 13, 2021 @ 2:01 PM
A version of this story about “Mank” appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
“Fincher-vision” is the term that costume designer Trish Summerville uses while discussing her experience working with director David Fincher. “His mind is so clear about what he wants, but there’s still room for spontaneity,” she said. “That’s why there’s so much happiness in the craft departments on his films. And so much repeat business.” Production designer Donald Graham Burt echoed her sentiment. “When David starts telling me about a new film, he visually sees the whole thing in his head,” he said
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When director David Fincher called to tell costume designer Trish Summerville that his long talked-about film “Mank” starring Gary Oldman as “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz had gotten the green light, she knew it was destined to be “smart, funny, poignant, beautiful; it would tick all the boxes!”
“I definitely jumped at the chance,” says Summerville, who worked with Fincher on numerous other projects, though never before on a black and white feature film. “Besides a great story, with David I knew it was going to be incredible. I love working with him, and aside from this, he’s one of my favorite humans.”
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Mank, which takes up the
Citizen Kane authorship question reinvigorated by a 1971 Pauline Kael essay in
The
New Yorker. What was of interest to me was, here s a guy who had seemingly nothing but contempt for what he did for a living. And, on almost his way out the door, having burned most of the bridges that he could … something changed.
Shot in black and white and in the style of a 1930s movie,
Mank toggles between Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) writing the first draft of
Citizen Kane from a remote house in the desert and flashback sequences of his life in Hollywood in the 30s, including his friendship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst (Charles Dance), who inspired
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