Without doubt one of David Fincher’s best films, Zodiacfinds a new streaming home in December.
While true crime fanatics watch the new Netflix series, It’s the zodiac speaking, Fincher’s 2007 thriller Zodiac set to land on Paramount+ on December 1. Zodiac centers around Robert Graysmith, a cartoonist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle. While working at the store, he becomes fascinated by a series of murders linked to a serial killer, who calls himself the “Zodiac Killer”, and the accompanying cryptic letters he sends to the newspaper. Years pass without the police being able to catch the notorious killer, Graysmith becomes obsessed with discovering the true identity of the killer who tormented the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Zodiac is based on real events documented in the books written by Graysmith himself, who became famous for his theory that Arthur Leigh Allen was the Zodiac Killer. Although he was never charged with the Zodiac murders, Allen was the only person the police ever named as a suspect. While the film certainly chronicles many real events that happened, Fincher rightly chooses to center the film on Graysmith himself, a man who succumbs to his obsession with solving the mystery surrounding the Zodiac Killer, even at the expense of his personal and personal life. family relationships. Zodiac holds a 90% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Chloë Sevigny, Elias Koteas, Brian Cox and John Carroll Lynch.
Robert Downey Jr. helped Jake Gyllenhaal memorize his lines
One of the most fascinating elements of Zodiac is that it came out just before Downey Jr. became one of the biggest stars in the world with his career-defining role as Tony Stark in the 2008s. Iron Man. Before helping usher in the MCU era in Hollywood, Downey Jr. was still producing excellent performances, but the actor was still dealing with the fallout from his well-documented public struggles with drug addiction. This made studios uneasy about hiring the acclaimed actor, which he Zodiac co-star Gyllenhaal referenced during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show. By CinemaBlendGyllenhall told Stern “I was with him when he drove to work when he had to make sure“.
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However, Gyllenhaal would further recall how Downey Jr. actually helped him memorize a specific speech in the film. “I remember him teaching me how he memorized lines…I still struggle… He showed me his technique because I was having trouble with a speech. He memorized things in a way where you memorize them so quickly you don’t think about them, so it’s musical. And so your conscious brain isn’t connected to the words you’re speaking, so you slow it down…you don’t have to think about the next word. It’s his magic. His mind works so fast. »
While Downey Jr. would go on to become arguably Hollywood’s biggest star, his portrayal of Paul Avery in Fincher’s Zodiac is one of the actor’s best performances and luckily, more people will have the chance to see it when it arrives on Paramount+ on December 1st.
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Zodiac
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist became an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorized northern California with a killing spree.
- Director
- David Fincher
- Release date
- March 2, 2007
- Studio
- Primordial
- Cast
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
- Runtime
- 2 hours 37 minutes