David Fincher’s latest The Killer is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week, and a teaser poster has been unveiled ahead of that. "Execution is everything," says the new poster.
The movie is based on a graphic novel by Alexis Nolent and Luc Jacamon. It tells the tale of an assassin played by Michael Fassbender, who starts to question his sanity as he awaits his latest target.
Fincher has reunited with Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker for The Killer. Walker also wrote the Oscar-winning The Wolfman and the 1999 film Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp.
With Fassbender in the lead, the cast also features Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Sophie Charlotte and Tilda Swinton.
David Fincher had last directed Mank, a black-and-white drama on the tumultuous scripting of Citizen Kane (2020). The film, also released on Netflix, earned 10 Academy Award nominations in 2021, winning two. Although Fincher had been working with Netflix almost exclusively for the past five years, he officially tied the knot with a four-year back in November 2020. Fincher has been involved with some of the biggest Netflix projects of the past decade, including Love Death & Robots (2019), House of Cards (2013-2018), and Mindhunter (2017-19).
The production companies working on the project include Panic Pictures, Archaia Entertainment, and BOOM! Studios. Also involved in The Killer will be Erik Messerschmidt, who will serve as the cinematographer. The movie will be out in select theatres in October and will arrive on Netflix on November 10.