EXCLUSIVE: Netflix teams Robert Towne and David Fincher for ‘Chinatown’ prequel series pilot script | Chinatown
, sources tell Deadline. Towne won an Oscar for scripting a drama that mixed fact and fiction to tell the story of a private eye hired to expose an adulterer who instead uncovers far more unsavory things.. The idea behind the prequel series would be to focus on a young Jake Gittes as he plies his business in a town where the wealthy and corruption involves areas like land, oil and gangs.
The hope is that Fincher might direct the pilot, but that is not part of the deal which at this point covers a pilot script.Fincher was one of the first superstar directors to jump into TV production, when he madethere, which just finished its second season, and will next direct at Netflix, a drama feature that chronicles the battles between screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles over, for which both shared the Oscar for screenwriting.
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