David Fincher says he has signed a multiyear exclusive content deal with Netflix

David Fincher, who is awaiting the release of Mank on Netflix, recently revealed that he has signed a four-year exclusive content deal with the streamer. The news of his deal had been circulating for months, but the filmmaker confirmed it in an interview with French magazine Premiere , writes The Playlist . “Yes, I have an exclusivity deal with [Netflix] for another four years. And depending on Mank’s reception, I’ll either go see them sheepishly asking them what I can do to redeem myself or take the attitude of the arrogant asshole who’ll require making other films in black and white. No, I’m here to deliver them ‘content’ — whatever it means— likely to bring them spectators, in my small sphere of influence,” said Fincher. The filmmaker already has a strong relationship with Netflix ever since he executive-produced and even directed some episodes of House of Cards, which kicked off the platform’s original programming run. He was the director and showrunner of Mindhunter , recently cancelled by Netflix. He even co-produced the animated anthology Love, Death and Robots with Tim Miller In  Mank , Fincher heads back to the 1930s and ‘reevaluates Hollywood’ through the eyes of screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz — a drama critic for The New York Times and The New Yorker who is co-credited for writing Citizen Kane with Orson Welles. The film is out on 13 November.