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Posted by Matt Holmes

David Fincher is well and truly back folks.

After helming one of the year’s best and most addictive movies in Zodiac (seriously, when your watching that movie you feel as obsessed as one of those cops… and you will begin scouring the net for more info on the investigation), he soon began work on the sci-fi drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which saw him re-team with Brad Pitt alongside Cate Blanchett.

That movie that see’s Pitt age backwards (imagine how terrifying that would be, unless of course you were 93) will be out at the end of next year.

Fincher’s next movie after that will be The Killer, an adaptation of a late 80’s graphic novel that Paramount Pictures have just acquired from writer Alexis Nolent. The novel follows a top assassin whose conscience begins to catch up with him, and also a cop hot on his tail.

Alessandro Camon will write the script. He has worked as a producer in film for the last ten years on movies such as American Psycho, Thank You For Smoking and The Mutant Chronicles but as of yet, he has not contributed a script for a feature.

Brad Pitt’s production company is also on board… could he be tempted by this?

I love cop chase movies like this and Fincher has no equal in this cop genre. It’s so great to have Fincher working so frequently right now, I hope this is the movie we all hoped Hitman would have been.

categories - Movie News, Thriller

Further Reading

• David Fincher bringing us THE GOON!

• David Fincher takes on Holmes! The first serial killer in the U.S?

• Aja escapes, but David Fincher falls down the BLACK HOLE

• David Fincher’s upcoming projects

• Brad Pitt to work with Fincher again

4 Comments »

1. I’m on obard for ANYTHING Fincher does. He get criticized by brain-dead moviegoers who wouldn’t know a good film if Cecil B Demille kicked them in the balls, and arrogant film critics who love to bash oflks for no reason, but I’ve always loved his work ever since SE7EN.

   I didn’t know he was directing Benjamin Button. I know it was filming down in New Orleans, but knowing Fincher is making it makes it a must-see.

   And no, I don’t think this will be the movie Hitman should have been, in fact I hope not. I am SO sick and tired of the story angle of “the hitman who becomes the target.” Is that the only damned hitman story Hollywood knows how to tell?
   Apparently. Well, in Fincher’s hands it at least has hope of being different.

   Comment by JaySmack | November 2, 2007

2. The Hitman story should have been the heavy conscience one. If i remember rightly Hitman has some relegious connections (I think he hides away in a Church and is mentored by a Priest).

   That kind of conscious should have been the Hitman one. He doesn’t talk because his actions are the words. He’s smart, sophisticated, clean with his work… but you know there is a darker layer going on.

   Comment by Matt Holmes | November 2, 2007

3. So, wait…was John Woo’s THE KILLER from 1989 based on this graphic novel? Because the plot, title and time period seem exactly the same. My impression was that Woo’s film was an original but this seems like a pretty big coincidence to me.

   Comment by Michael Kaminski | November 3, 2007

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