David Fincher's THE KILLER Gets a Photo and a Positive Reaction From Venice Film Festival Chief
Every few months a little bit of information comes out for David Fincher’s next big feature film The Killer. It’s been eight months since the last piece of news dropped for the film! Now today, we have a new photo to share with you and an update from the Venice Film Festival Chief Alberto Barbera, who has watched the film and he shared a positive reaction to it.
He told Deadline: “It’s based on a French graphic novel, and the film is very violent. It’s breathtaking from beginning to the end. Michael Fassbender is fantastic.” When referring to that film along with Michael Mann’s Ferrari, and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, he said: “I’d be surprised if these movies weren’t in the Oscar race.”
The story is an adaptation of Alexis Nolent’s graphic novel series, and the synopsis reads: “After a fateful near miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.”
The description for the book reads: “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.”
The project has been in the works for almost three years and Fincher re-teamed with Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker to write the script. The movie also stars Tilda Swinton, Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell and more.
This movie is finally set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September with a Netflix release later this year on November 10, 2023.