{"id":31496,"date":"2023-08-30T01:33:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T01:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=31496"},"modified":"2023-08-30T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T01:36:29","slug":"david-finchers-the-killer-looks-like-the-kind-of-movie-the-hitman-games-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=31496","title":{"rendered":"David Fincher\u2019s The Killer looks like the kind of movie the Hitman games deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"
Netflix released the first trailer on Tuesday for The Killer, David Fincher\u2019s latest psychological action thriller starring Michael Fassbender as a methodical and highly trained assassin undergoing a crisis of conscience while on assignment in Paris. The trailer is quintessential Fincher: a fast-cut montage of scenes of Fassbender narrating his gradual psychological breakdown filled with sickly yellow hues and icy turquoise lighting, powered by an ominous, thrumming electronic score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.<\/p>\n

My immediate first reactions to the trailer were (a) this looks incredible, and (b) I wish there was a Hitman movie that looked like this.<\/p>\n

While Fincher\u2019s film is based on a 1998 French graphic novel by writer Alexis Nolent and illustrator Luc Jacamon, it could easily pass for a loose adaptation set in the world of IO Interactive\u2019s stealth action games with only a few tweaks. To be fair, there have been two movies based on Hitman to date, in the form of 2007\u2019s Hitman and 2015\u2019s Hitman: Agent 47; neither adaptation has quite captured the effortlessly cool aesthetic or psychological intrigue of either the franchise or its bald-headed protagonist. While Fincher\u2019s film obviously owes a debt to Jean-Pierre Melville\u2019s 1967 crime thriller Le Samoura\u00ef, with Fassbender a contemporary stand-in for Alain Delon\u2019s character Jef Costello, the trailer emanates the same steely-eyed focus and frenetic action of IO Interactive\u2019s flagship franchise. Truth be told, the teaser for The Killer reminds me a lot of the announcement trailer for 2016\u2019s Hitman, in how they both offer a peek into the minds and modus operandi of their respective main characters.<\/p>\n

The Killer will co-star Arliss Howard (Full Metal Jacket), Charles Parnell (Top Gun: Maverick), and Tilda Swinton (Three Thousand Years of Longing) alongside Michael Fassbender, and will open in theaters for a limited release on Oct. 27 ahead of its streaming debut on Nov. 10.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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