David Fincher's New Movie Is About Murder Again, Michael Fassbender Rumored To Star

The first details on David Fincher's next movie have come to light, with Deadline reporting that the Oscar-winner is adapting the Alexis Nolent graphic novel series, The Killer, for a movie.

Fincher is working on the project with screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who wrote the script for Fincher's murder movie Seven. Sources told Deadline that Michael Fassbender is in talks to star in the movie, though no deal has been made.

The movie is headed to Netflix, according to the report. Fincher recently inked a four-year deal with the streaming company that began with the movie Mank, which told the story of the process of making Citizen Kane and starred Gary Oldman.

Fincher is no stranger to directing projects about killers, murder, and death, so The Killer should be right in his wheelhouse. The graphic novel tells the story of killer who has a crisis.

Fincher directed the movies Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Gone Girl, while he earned Oscar nominations for two other movies that he directed, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Social Network. Fincher also directed a number of episodes of Netflix's criminal psychology drama Mindhunter.

It sounds like it's very early days for Fincher's new The Killer movie, so there is no word yet on a full cast or release date.