One month later, the San Francisco Chronicle receives encrypted letters written by the killer calling himself ' Zodiac,' who threatens to kill a dozen people unless his coded message containing his identity is published. On July 4, 1969, an unknown man attacks Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau with a handgun at a lovers' lane in Vallejo, California. In a 2016 critics' poll conducted by the BBC, Zodiac was voted the 12th greatest film of the 21st century.

It grossed over $84.7 million worldwide on a production budget of $65 million. The film was nominated for several awards, including the Saturn Award for Best Action, Adventure or Thriller Film. Pictures in international markets on March 2, 2007, and received largely positive reviews, with praise for its writing, directing, acting, and historical accuracy. Zodiac was released by Paramount Pictures in North America and Warner Bros. Fincher employed the digital Thomson Viper FilmStream Camera to photograph most of the film, with traditional high-speed film cameras used for slow-motion murder sequences. Fischer spent 18 months conducting their own investigation and research into the Zodiac murders. Fincher, Vanderbilt, and producer Bradley J. The case remains one of the United States' most infamous unsolved crimes. The film tells the story of the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers. with Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Lynch, Chloë Sevigny, Philip Baker Hall and Dermot Mulroney in supporting roles.

The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the non-fiction books by Robert Graysmith, Zodiac (1986) and Zodiac Unmasked (2002).

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