David Fincher goes after THE KILLER!

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

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.