The precision design of David Fincher’s hit-man feature mirrors its subject, writes Adrian Pennington
James Bond by way of B&Q is how director David Fincher conceived of The Killer, his feature adaptation of an acclaimed French graphic novel.
The character played by Michael Fassbender doesn’t have cars or gadgets provided by a state-of-the-art organisation. Instead, he shops on Amazon and in convenience stores, dresses like a tourist and creates his own low-fi means of trapping and eliminating people.
“The Killer is a spider sitting in a web,” said cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt ASC.
While the source material by Alexis Nolent and artist Luc Jacamon is quite expansive in terms of story and politics the screenplay by Fincher and long-standing collaborator Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en) strips things back to become...
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