the killer
David Fincher Teaming with Michael Fassbender for Netflix Drama The Killer
David Fincher is teaming with Michael Fassbender to make The Killer, Fincher’s long-developing assassin drama. The Hollywood Reporter reports the film has been picked up Netflix and will begin filming before the end of 2021. The Killer is an adaptation of the French graphic novel of the same name and has been associated with Fincher since 2007. The project is being written by Andrew Kevin Walker, who previously wrote Fincher’s breakout film, Seven, and also worked on Fight Club and The Game. In a role reminiscent of Bill Hader’s in Barry (without the acting classes), Fassbender will star as an assassin who begins to psychologically crack as he develops a conscience, even as his clients continue to demand his skills. First published in October 1998, the graphic novel is described as ha...
Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Dua Lipa to Feature on Latest Episodes of Netflix’s Song Exploder
The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Dua Lipa and Natalia Lafourcade are the artists tapped to take dives into specific, career-changing hits on Volume 2 of Netflix’s Song Exploder. The new season will premiere globally on Dec. 15, 2020. Trent Reznor will discuss his iconic Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt,” which has been famously covered by Johnny Cash and others. Reznor, an Oscar, Grammy and Emmy-winning composer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, wrote “Hurt” in 1994 and it’s the final track on NIN’s second studio album, The Downward Spiral. “I first interviewed Trent Reznor for a Nine Inch Nails episode of the podcast back in 2017, and afterward, as I was packing up my microphone and laptop, he asked me, ‘Have you ever thought about making this into a TV show?’” Song Exploder host and...
