FilmBuff
06-22-24, 10:29 PM
Robert Towne, screenwriter of the original Chinatown, is working on a prequel series over at Netflix.
Now in his 80s, the screenwriter has even returned to “Chinatown” himself, working with David Fincher to script a prequel series that explores Gittes’ days as a newly minted detective patrolling the neighborhood that would come to haunt him.
“All I’m likely to say is yes, all the episodes have been written for Netflix,” Towne writes in an interview with Variety. “Working with a force of nature like David Fincher, tho’ occasionally humbling, is never less than enlightening.”
Netflix did not have a comment on the project. (The streamer also had none when the series was first reported to be in development in 2019.) Nonetheless, Towne’s vision for the prequel seems cohesive, shining light on the tragic events that shaped Gittes into the instinctively cynical (to a fault) private eye that he is in Polanski’s original film.
https://variety.com/2024/film/features/chinatown-50th-anniversary-robert-towne-prequel-david-fincher-1236043979/
Now in his 80s, the screenwriter has even returned to “Chinatown” himself, working with David Fincher to script a prequel series that explores Gittes’ days as a newly minted detective patrolling the neighborhood that would come to haunt him.
“All I’m likely to say is yes, all the episodes have been written for Netflix,” Towne writes in an interview with Variety. “Working with a force of nature like David Fincher, tho’ occasionally humbling, is never less than enlightening.”
Netflix did not have a comment on the project. (The streamer also had none when the series was first reported to be in development in 2019.) Nonetheless, Towne’s vision for the prequel seems cohesive, shining light on the tragic events that shaped Gittes into the instinctively cynical (to a fault) private eye that he is in Polanski’s original film.
https://variety.com/2024/film/features/chinatown-50th-anniversary-robert-towne-prequel-david-fincher-1236043979/