David Fincher is re-teaming with Seven screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker for The Killer, a new Netflix movie, with Deadline reporting that Michael Fassbender is in talks to star.
Based on the series of graphic novels by Alexis Nolent, the movie will follow a cold-blooded assassin – the role Fassbender is rumored to be playing – who begins to have a psychological crisis in a world with no moral compass.
Fincher and Walker's last collaboration, the neo-noir crime thriller Seven, was released in 1995. With an all-star ensemble cast that includes Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Gwyneth Paltrow, the movie follows a pair of detectives who team up to track down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders. This will be the first time the director and screenwriter have re-teamed since.
Meanwhile, we last saw Fassbender on our screens as Magneto in 2019's X-Men: Dark Phoenix alongside Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, and Jennifer Lawrence. He has a couple of other upcoming projects in the pipeline, too, including the martial arts comedy Kung Fury 2 and Taika Waititi's sports comedy Next Goal Wins – both a far cry from a Fincher thriller.
