"There's more than one way to lose your life to a killer"
Directed by David Fincher
Produced by Ceán Chaffin, Brad Fischer, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, James Vanderbilt
Screenplay by James Vanderbilt
Based on "Zodiac" by Robert Graysmith
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Lynch, Dermot Mulroney
Music by David Shire
Cinematography: Harris Savides
Edited by Angus Wall
Production companies: Phoenix Pictures, Road Rebel
Distributed by Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros.
Release date: 2 March 2007 (Canada)
Running time: 157 minutes; 162 minutes (Director's Cut)
Country: United States
Budget: $65 million
Box office: $84.8 million
"Zodiac" is a mystery crime drama film directed by David Fincher and based on Robert Graysmith's non-fiction book of the same name. The story is about the manhunt for a notorious serial killer who called himself the "Zodiac" who killed in and around the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, leaving several victims in his wake and taunting police with letters, blood stained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers. Did somebody actually solve th case?
