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“After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.” Director: David FincherWriters: Alexis Nolent, Andrew Kevin WalkerStaring: Michael Fassbender, Tilda […]
“After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.”
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Alexis Nolent, Andrew Kevin Walker
Staring: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Monique Ganderton, Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell
Release Date: November 10, 2023
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Oh fuck yes. Here it is. David Fincher, one of my personal favorite directors, has a movie coming out on Netflix on November 10, 2023. This movie is called The Killer, and it looks to be perfectly Fincher-esq.
Two-time Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender is back for his first movie role since Dark Phoenix (2019). Before that he had a movie called The Snowman (2017), which was a horrendous film that spoiled a stupendous book. If you have not had a chance to read Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole series, I strongly recommend it. The Snowman is one of the better books, and what happened to that movie was a disgrace.
But moving on.
Fassbender is back, and anyone with a brain knows that he is one of the best actors alive right now. Those people also know that Fassbender has struggled mightily to get high quality roles. While Alien: Covenant (2017) is an entertaining franchise movie, I don’t think anyone is clamoring for it. You have to go back and dive deep into his IMDB and toggle down to 2015 and Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs before you get to a mass appeal critically praised movie. YIKES.
But now we have The Killer. We have David Fincher coming to the rescue and scoping Fassbender out of his acting hiatus.
Every Fincher movie has a unique visual quality to it. Even his less than stellar movies. (I just watched Alien 3 (1992) for a blog I am writing and I am sad to say that movie is not very good). While this trailer for The Killer focuses more on the mental pretzel of patterns and rules that the main character puts upon himself, we do get glimpses of some Fincher visual splendor.
The closing moments of the trailer have a blinds transition effect which reminded me of the train station sequence from The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) where the sniper sets up behind the rotating wall. In terms of other movie comparisons, the color scheme of The Killer reminds me of Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011). That film’s first trailer (which is one of the best trailers ever) is fast paced with quick chops and very few scenes with bright natural light. Not a lot of sequences happening in the day time.
As a follow-up to Mank (2020), The Killer does not look to have any of the Gary Oldman dark humor. The Killer appears to be a very hyper focused thriller focused on a man trying to understand what his mind is like. Fincher has excelled in adapting stories and extrapolating the psychosis of its characters. His greatest example may actually be Rosemund Pike as Amy Dunne in Gone Girl (2014).
The Killer is based off of a graphic novel written by Alexis Nolent and illustrated by Luc Jacamon. This project of Fincher’s has supposedly been his pet project for nearly 20 years, and now it is coming to fruition. Fassbender is in, and he is joined by the likes of Tilda Swinton, Monique Ganderton, Arliss Howard, and Charles Parnell. The Killer is most likely going to be a Fassbender soliloquy, and who would be upset about that.
The Killer comes out on Netflix on November 10.
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