Why It’s A Good Option For Thriller Fans: Jake Gyllenhaal’s cartoonist character Robert Graysmith is the real-life author of the non-fiction book that inspired Zodiac, director David Fincher’s masterful, in-depth account of the elusive serial killer’s infamous reign that may be told mostly through dialogue, but to a deeply haunting effect that has remained largely influential to fact-based crime dramas since.
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A cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle (Jake Gyllenhaal) strikes up an unlikely friendship with his crime reporter colleague (Robert Downey Jr.) and a disgruntled detective (Mark Ruffalo) as he obsesses over the identity of a murderer terrorizing Northern California throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.