David Fincher and Michael Fassbender's THE KILLER Has Started Production
Director David Fincher has started production in Chicago on his feature film adaptation of Alexis Nolent’s graphic novel series The Killer. This is a project that I’ve been super excited about, and I have no doubt that Fincher is going to deliver an incredible movie.
The movie stars Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton, and Fincher has also re-teamed with Seven screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker to write the script. The story follows “a cold-blooded assassin who begins to have a psychological crisis in a world with no moral compass.” Here’s the description from the book:
“A man solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits, the more he thinks he's losing his mind, if not his cool. A brutal, bloody and stylish noir story of a professional assassin lost in a world without a moral compass, this is a case study of a man alone, armed to the teeth and slowly losing his mind.”
Fincher is looking to have some fun with this film. It’s been said that Fincher “is a little done with prestige movies for the moment and this The Killer is going to be a grimy, pulpy movie, as opposed to a film. In making that distinction, Fincher sees Se7en as a movie and Mank as a film.
Source: Screen Magazine