Tag: The Two Jakes
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Jack Nicholson Always Had A Third Chinatown Movie In Mind
There isn’t a chance “Chinatown,” written by Robert Towne and directed by Roman Polanski, would get made as a feature film today. Its detail-dense narrative about water rights in Southern California, intertwined with the vile dealings of incestuous industrialist Noah Cross (John Huston), would likely be expanded into a series or not made at all.…
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David Fincher, Robert Towne Team for ‘Chinatown’ Prequel Series on Netflix
Well here’s one that caught us by surprise: David Fincher has agreed to executive produce a Chinatown prequel series for Netflix, which has hired original screenwriter Robert Towne to write the pilot. The series would follow a young Jake Gittes, the character played by Jack Nicholson in the original film and its subsequent 1990 sequel,…