Welcome to Zodiac Chronicle, a 24 part investigation into David Fincher’s 2007 genre-altering masterpiece Zodiac. Adapted from Robert Graysmith’s novel by screenwriter James Vanderbilt and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr and Mark Ruffalo.

Writer, critic and author with bylines at the New York Times, The Playlist, Vulture - the editor in chief of independent film publication Crooked Marquee and host of the FUN CITY CINEMA PODCAST - Jason Bailey provided our introduction. To help me discuss the entry into the city shaped irrevocably by the Zodiac, San Francisco are filmmaker and screenwriter of Rounders, The Girlfriend Experience, Ocean’s Thirteen and co-creator and showrunner of Billions - Brian Koppelman. Film critic at The Ringer and Cinema Scope, author of essential movie books The Coen Brothers This Book Really Ties the Films Together and the recently released Paul Thomas Anderson Masterworks - Adam Nayman. Pop culture writer and critic with bylines at the Pajiba, The AV Club, Bright Wall Dark Room, Roger Eber Dot Com, Crooked Marquee and Slate - Roxana Hadadi. And finally, staff writer for Slashfilm and host of the terrific 21st Century Spielberg podcast Chris Evangelista.