The No. 1 grosser on Netflix, The Killer appears to be a new success for David Fincher, even if it’s getting mixed reviews from the platform’s subscribers. Still rated 3.5 out of 5 by AlloCiné viewers, this thriller adapted from the comics by Alexis Nolent (Matz) and Luc Giacomoni is a huge success.
For this highly anticipated project, which allows him to return to his first love, David Fincher has teamed up with long-time collaborator Andrew Kevin Walker, who signed on to write Seven but also contributed (uncredited) writing to The. Game and fight club.
But for the main role of this killer, who was involved in a manhunt around the world after a contract gone wrong, the American film director called Michael Fassbender, with whom he had never worked.
Brad Pitt could play The Killer
However, David Fincher had another name in mind for The Assassin, a project he has been working on for a long time. The director was thinking of Brad Pitt, the face of his three films – Seven, Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, as he explained. Rolling Stone :
“I originally thought about Brad in 2008. But his response was, “Hey, that’s a little too nihilistic for me.” Okay, so who? We needed someone to capture that aspect of the character. Then a dozen years later, when Andrew and I were talking about Michael Fassbender I thought.”
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Although the German-Irish actor was busy with his parallel career in motor racing – he took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans – and somewhat neglected the scenes, David Fincher sent him the script with the following note: “I want to send you a reading, I don’t know what your life is like now, I know you’re racing…”.
It didn’t take long for Michael Fassbender to respond to David Fincher and get the role. Even if the actor known for playing Shame, Hunger and Unscrupulous Bastards plays the hitman and not Brad Pitt, David Fincher’s friend isn’t too far off, as his production company Plan B was involved in the production of The Killer.
The Killer movie is available on Netflix.
Source: Allocine
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