The texture of "The Woman In The Window" is an interesting one but it is perspective that it perhaps moves a little too broadly within the narrative. Based on the novel by A.J. Finn, the book itself (having talked to the author just before this adaptation began shooting) was a mediation on his own insomnia.

With "Mank", Fincher stepped out of his comfort zone on the extreme petulance at times of the human condition and places it more squarely in the notion of talent versus self-loathing. His father wrote the script of Herman Mankewicz, a gifted writer, who was always on the periphery of greatness.