How Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Became 1930s-Style Tunesmiths for ‘Mank`
(WorldNews Music)

A version of this story about Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and “Mank” first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. Director David Fincher has said that “Mank” was meant to look and feel as if it were found on the shelf of a studio vault where it had sat unnoticed since the 1940s — so when a song comes on the radio in the film about “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, it figures that the tune might be a number straight from that era. But that’s not the case with “(If Only You Could) Save Me,” a big-band ballad with a sultry vocal by Adryon de León, which was written not by a mid-20th-century...