David Fincher’s new movie Mank hit Netflix on Friday. And, as he did with The Social Network, when looking for a soundtrack, the director got on the WhatsApp group with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and went ‘Busy?’. The exact details of that bit are actually sketchy, but the end result is the same: he needed music, they did it for him. It’s out now and it’s bloody marvellous. Listen on streaming services now if you don’t believe us. The film stars Gary Oldman, and tells the story of work on Orson Welles’ legendary flick Citizen Kane. A film about a film. The soundtrack continues the Oscar-winning pair’s hallmark of being very, very good at this sort of thing, as previously also seen on Bird Box, Gone Girl and historian Ken Burns’ epic, 20-hour TV series The Viet...
