This is one of the event movies on Netflix later this year, David Fincher’s Assassin is available on Netflix. This six-chapter thriller follows an assassin’s vengeful mission after a contract gone wrong. He then battles his employers and himself on a worldwide manhunt.
The Assassin is an adaptation of a comic book series The killer French for the script by Alexis Nolent (Matz) and illustrations by Luc Giacomoni, published by Casterman in the Ligne rouge collection. David Fincher has reunited with screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who signed on from Seven’s script, to work on this adaptation.
A great French movie inspired by The Killer!
David Fincher wanted to adapt The Assassin after he read the English version shortly after its publication in 2007. The project took a long time to see the light of day, but finally the arrival of Andrew Kevin Walker made it possible to do so. .
But also the casting of its main actor: Michael Fassbender. The film’s press kit explained that if the German-Irish actor hadn’t been cast, David Fincher probably wouldn’t have directed the film. Michael Fassbender immediately accepted, as he had been looking for a project of this scale for a long time.
Especially since he discovered Jean-Pierre Melville’s French film Le Samouraï with Alain Delon: “At the time, I said to my partner at DMC, Conor McCaughan, ‘We don’t make movies like this anymore. This is what we need! We should try to find a film project. This guy”. But we didn’t find anything.”.
And then The Killer project happened. And it was entirely appropriate, since Alexis Nolent was particularly inspired by the samurai to write his comic book The Killer. The murderous character of Alain Delon, imagined by Jean-Pierre Melville and Georges Pellegrini, was a kind of model for the character of the murderer.
This inspiration was clearly carried over into David Fincher’s adaptation, which is inspired by Jean-Pierre Melville’s film, as well as the films of Alfred Hitchcock, especially Rear Window.
If you like David Fincher’s The Assassin on Netflix and want to (re)discover Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï, know that the 1967 film has a new physical release in UHD, DVD and Blu-ray restored versions. in 4K under the supervision of Pathé.
This collector’s box set, limited and numbered to 1,000 copies, will be available on November 29th.
David Fincher’s The Killer is available on Netflix.
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