Welcome to Zodiac Chronicle. A 24 part investigation into David Fincher's 2007 genre-altering masterpiece Zodiac. It is adapted from Robert Graysmith's novel by screenwriter James Vanderbilt. The film, of course, stars an incredible ensemble cast led by Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr and Mark Ruffalo. I am your host, Blake Howard. This is the seventeenth episode of Zodiac: Chronicle – Virgo Pt. 1. Today, our introduction was Contributing Editor for Nerdist - Lindsey Romain.

Joining me to ransack a trailer are Zodiac screenwriter James Vanderbilt. Award-winning actor on stage and screen, a man who delivers the most consistently involving and affecting characters to a myriad of films and T.V., including Fargo, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Gothika, The Drew Carey Show, Shutter Island, The Invitation, The Founder and this film Zodiac - the incredible John Carroll Lynch. Former long-running editor of Time Out New York, editor, critic and writer for hire with bylines at the New York Times, Sight and Sound, Empire, a Zodiac true believer- Joshua Rothkopf. Writer & Director of THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH, contributor to American Cinematographer & Filmmaker, AMPAS historian, the best screening moderator in L.A and probably the greater U.S, Jim Hemphill. Art director, writer and the creator of Cinephile: A Card Game, Cory Everett. Host of the Prog Save America Podcast, the creator of #AYEARWITHWOMEN and #NOIRVEMBER - Marya E. Gates. New York Times Bestselling Author James Patterson collaborator, Ned Kelly Award Winner, Australia's premier crime writer Candice Fox. Internet Movie News TrailBlazer, editor in chief of Dark Horizons Dot Com - the man-machine — my dear friend - Garth Franklin. The co-host of the Sinner Files movie podcast is the chief instigator of our cinematic deep dives brand — my dear friend - Stu Coote. New York-based film and theatre-maker, writer of many kinds of criticism, Danny Bowes. And Staff writer at WBUR's The ARTery and a contributing writer at North Shore Movies - my favourite Bostonian - Sean Burns.