Mank director rails at the risk-averse production strategy of major
Hollywood studios
Mank director David Fincher has described Todd Phillips’ Oscar-winning Joker as “a betrayal” of mentally ill people.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Fincher was reflecting on Joker’s surprise success at the
box office in a wide-ranging attack on the risk-averse production strategy of the major Hollywood studios. Saying that studios “don’t want to make anything that can’t make them a billion dollars”, he also suggested that occasionally “challenging” material can get support, if there is solid previous evidence of commercial potential.