The director and screenwriter talk about their long-awaited reteaming for Netflix’s hitman thriller starring Michael Fassbender.
“I never say never.”
Generally good words to live by.
Michael Fassbender in ‘The Killer’.Netflix
“It doesn’t pay to have rules with that stuff.
I’m the guy who, beforeZodiac, said, ‘No more serial killers.'”
WhileThe Killeris not a serial killer film, it certainly has a series of killings.
Michael Fassbender in ‘The Killer’.Netflix
It was the most I could get it down to and still have it function and be semi-natural."
“I serve no god or country.
I fly no flag.
Tilda Swinton in ‘The Killer’.Netflix
If I’m effective, it’s because of one simple fact: I.
F—.”
But it was David’s insistence that we keep discussing it.
David Fincher and Andrew Kevin Walker at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Killer’.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
And I don’t know how you’re going to get there either and don’t bug me!"
he concludes, with a laugh.
(David Fincher laughs a lot more in conversation than you might imagine.)
Walker cannot have been surprised by Fincher’s diligence.
“I’m very proud of my uncredited work,” he says.
“I did do a polish, strictly a polish, forFight Club.
Walker says the latter movie “was very close to getting made.
That would have been thecoolestTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seayou could imagine.
It was going to be a movie where parents would be as blown away as the kids.”
“He was saying, ‘What’s that song?
What’s that song?’
And I was like, ‘Oh, you mean ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’?
There aren’t many minds like that.
“I had a discussion with David and said, ‘But what if it’s a woman?
She would be the ultimate person to do it.
Hey, Dave, give her a call!’
And god bless her, she said ‘Yes.’
So it just made sense to shuffle the deck of names we used every time.
Fincher, to his credit, and in his genius, made sure to really hit them.
So what’s next for the dastardly duo?
Hint!").
He also says that he wants to “write a Christmas movie.
Probably with a serial killer.”
“Soundskind of cool,” says Fincher, when EW relays this information to the director.
He is joking, of course.
But, then again, never say never.
The Killer is now available to stream on Netflix.
Watch the film’s trailer below.
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