'The Killer' Trailer: Michael Fassbender Is an Assassin With a Conscience in David Fincher's New Movie

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, a neo-noir film that follows an assassin who finds himself unraveling. Based on the French graphic novel series of the same name by Alexis Nolent (a.k.a Matz) and adapted by screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, Michael Fassbender stars as the titular mercenary who begins to have a psychological crisis in a world with no moral compass.«Stick to your plan, trust no one,» Fassbender's unnamed assassin tells himself throughout the bloody teaser. «Stick to the plan, forbid empathy… Anticipate, don't improvise… Never yield an advantage… Fight only the battle you're paid to fight.

Ask yourself, 'What's in it for me?' Empathy is weakness and weakness is vulnerability. This is what it takes if you want to succeed.

Simple.»The film's official logline reads: «After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.»Charles Parnell, Tilda Swinton, Arliss Howard and Sophie Charlotte star alongside Fassbender.The film marks Fincher's latest project with Netflix after executive producing cult favorites such as and and directing the feature film The film has been in the works for over a decade; Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to in 2007 and announced Fincher would be directing before it landed at Netflix.

Back in 2021, Netflix film chief Scott Stuber told that the film is in a similar vein to Fincher's signature thrillers." is based on a graphic novel and it is about someone who is a contract killer and the methodology of that world and what he does, which David does detail better than anyone.