First Behind the Scenes Look at David Fincher and Michael Fassbender's Film THE KILLER
David Fincher’s next film is an adaptation of Alexis Nolent’s graphic novel series The Killer. 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.” I’ve been pretty excited about this movie because I’m a huge fan of Fincher’s films. He’s one of my favorite filmmakers.
Fincher wrapped production on The Killer back in March, and today we have a little behind the scenes look to share with you. The footage comes courtesy of Michael Fassbender: Road to Le Mans, which is a web series that tracks the actor’s other passion in life.
In the footage, we see Fincher and Fassbender shooting scenes in the film utilizing LED walls to fill in for green screens. Fassbender also talked about the shoot and working with Fincher:
“It felt really good to go back to work. The film that I did before that was just before lockdown [Next Goal Wins], but that was 2019, so I was definitely ready to go back to work. With somebody of David’s caliber, it was a very special opportunity for me––quite a few locations over a five-month period. What was interesting for me was taking the experience from what we’re doing on track and bringing it on set, especially with somebody like David who films very precisely and everything is, you know, dealing in fractions in terms of how you deliver things and movement and exactly how the frame is occupied, if you will.
“You have to step on and deliver in a period of time and David, he’s looking for perfection and to do that within a take, however long that take is. It might be 40 seconds. It might be six minutes long, but within that time frame you’re looking to do everything exactly as it should be. You’ve taken on board all the notes and there’s plenty of them to digest, but in the moment when you’re trying to deliver those notes, you’re not thinking at all. It was a real honor. I felt like I learned a lot from him. It was a full-on shoot, very long hours sometimes six-day weeks, so there was literally not enough time for me to get into car and do any training whatsoever.”
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.”
You can watch the footage below beginning around the 2:30-minute mark. Are you looking forward to this movie?