So sad for me – The Hollywood Reporter

the killer Director David Fincher has stepped into the divide between Hollywood studios, streamers and striking actors and writers by urging both sides to return to the negotiating table.

“It’s very sad for me. I can understand both sides of it. All we can do is encourage people to speak up,” Fincher said while at the Venice Film Festival for the launch of his movie about the Netflix killer on Sunday. the killer Made during a pandemic and industry turmoil, the director lamented that SAG-AFTRA and members of the Writers Guild of America now had to put the tools down again.

“I’m obviously very sad. I’m sitting in the middle of both ends,” Fincher added as his Netflix film The Hard-Boiled Black premiered in competition in Venice. the killer The film centers on the titular killer, played by Michael Fassbender, who was not in Venice to help launch the film. His character gets involved in an international manhunt after his previous job fails.

“It’s a very simple, very compelling, straightforward drama. It’s high stakes. It’s very procedural,” Fincher said at a press conference in Venice about a fatal embrace to solidify his psychological portrait directed from a script by Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer behind Fincher’s screen classics. Se7en, the game And fight club.

the killer Adapted from the graphic novel series of the same name by Alexis Nolent (aka Matz) and illustrator Luc Jacamon, initially published in French by Editions Casterman. The film takes viewers less into the underworld and into the head of a murderer where he lives by strict law, only to see his world fall apart and his grip on reality loosen.

“I like the idea of ​​this code, or dismantling the bricks in the wall, according to his needs and necessity, by having, as he says, to make a plan, never to abandon that plan, and yet we see him improvise all the time.” Fincher explained.

In addition, the director deliberately cast Fassbender in the role of a shadowy killer known only as The Killer because we know nothing about the character besides what goes on in his head through an internal monologue revealed as a voiceover. Otherwise, the killer looks ordinary and ordinary.

“In terms of this character, he didn’t need to be scary. You know, the worldliness of evil. I hope someone sees this movie and gets really nervous about the guy behind it at Home Depot,” Fincher said.

the killer It will be shown in select theaters on October 27th before premiering on Netflix on November 10th. The cast includes Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Sophie Charlotte, and Tilda Swinton.

the killer He continues Fincher’s relationship with Netflix after his 2020 film Mank Focus on real life Citizen Kane Screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz – who has 10 Academy Award nominations and has won twice. Additionally, Fincher was an executive producer on the thriller series Mind hunterWhich released its first two seasons in 2017.