David Fincher’s latest feature, The Killer, earned 6 minutes and 45 seconds of applause Sunday evening after the lights went up on the film’s world premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival.
The atmosphere inside the room following the premiere was respectful, with Fincher in attendance without his main cast. As a Netflix production, the film is not eligible for SAG’s interim agreement program.
The pic, based on Alexis Nolent (pen name: Matz) and Luc Jacamon’s graphic novel series, stars Michael Fassbender and is Fincher’s first feature since 2020’s Mank, also for Netflix, which scored 10 Oscar noms, including Best Picture, and won two.
Fassbender plays an assassin who battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt while insisting none of it is personal.
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