After partnering with Netflix for his acclaimed biopic “Mank,” director David Fincher has re-teamed with the streaming carrier for his subsequent feature movie, “The Killer.”
Michael Fassbender is in talks to very huge title in the assassin drama, in response to The Hollywood Reporter and Closing date. Then again, Netflix and representatives for Fassbender declined to verify. Andrew Kevin Walker, who has collaborated with Fincher on “Se7en,” “Fight Club” and “The Game,” is writing the script.
“The Killer” centers on a frigid-blooded assassin who begins to comprise a sense of right and erroneous, inflicting him to emotionally crack. The memoir is in response to a graphic unique by Alexis Nolent.
Ceán Chaffin will support as producer.
In November, Fincher signed a four-yr movie take care of Netflix. “Mank,” a unlit-and-white drama that chronicles screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz’s efforts to get rid of out the script for the Orson Welles classic “Citizen Kane,” modified into released unhurried final yr and has been broadly regarded as an Oscars frontrunner. It marked Fincher’s first feature directing effort since 2014’s psychological thriller “Long past Lady.”
In between, Fincher executive produced and directed the Netflix TV series “Mindhunter,” an FBI crime drama starring Jonathan Groff.
In a Selection duvet memoir tied to the liberate of “Mank,” Fincher praised Netflix for making the roughly motion pictures that have largely fallen out of prefer at fashioned Hollywood studios.
“I’ve by no scheme been happier working at a teach than I’m at Netflix,” Fincher said. “They’re constructing a repository. It’s a pleasant ingredient that motion pictures have a teach to exist the put you don’t necessarily have to shove them into spandex summer or affliction iciness.”
