Rated 4.5 out of 5 Will this iconic 1970s detective film get a Netflix series with David Fincher?

50 years ago, audiences discovered Roman Polanski’s Chinatown in theaters, where Jack Nicholson plays a private detective who investigates a strange and dangerous case. An important film in the filmography of the actor and director, it received an Oscar for the best original screenplay in 1975. A blessing to its screenwriter Robert Towne.

Now the 90-year-old has come out of retirement to work on a very special project: writing a prequel series in collaboration with David Fincher. In 2019, the streaming platform Netflix was announced, we had no more news….

But A Interview given to the American media Variety For the film’s anniversary, Town shared some good news: the scripts are ready. “Every episode was written for Netflix. David is a force of nature and working with him was both enlightening and humbling.”

Netflix does not provide any news

Reached by Variety, Netflix did not respond to this comment, and we wonder if the platform really wants to invest in the project. As the American media revealed, the SVOD giant also did not communicate on this topic in 2019, when the US press learned about the previous project.

However, the latter could be part of a deal between David Fincher and the platform. The director re-signed in 2024 for another three years, a sign that the relationship is in good shape. So where does this go wrong? Budget? Is the script not good enough? This is a question we don’t have an answer to at this time…

However, the project looks promising, especially when we know the work of the two men. This prequel to Chinatown will focus on Gittes’ youth and how certain traumatic events turn him into a private detective. The series will mainly revolve around the relationship between the main character and his ex-partner Lou Escobar.