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Asked for a sequel, prequel, prestige-TV version, or all-Black cast, the panel answers that the prestige-TV version became Mindhunter.

David Fincher is the choice if the film could receive only one Oscar.

The explicit questions ask who the Zodiac was, why police did not begin with people known to victims, what non-work obsession could consume a life, whether Graysmith saw money in the project, and how a 1970s handwriting expert established authority.

The I Am Not Paul Avery button leads proposals including the houseboat, letters, scrapbook, and an explicitly rejected dildo.

Two explicit lessons are offered: “it’s not finished until you type it up,” likened to movies being abandoned rather than finished, and a sarcastic instruction to keep investigating even at the cost of family and sanity because Fincher may adapt it.

David Fincher wins through three explicit affirmative responses; the Zodiac killer is then raised as a provocative alternative because the film burnishes his myth.

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Ebert review

Dive bar scene

Letters and cordless phones

Soundtrack and college life

Malibu dream house