David Fincher Wants ‘The Killer’ to Make Viewers ‘Very Nervous About the Person Behind Them at Home Depot’
variety.comEllise Shafer David Fincher wants “The Killer” to make you nervous — specifically, the next time you’re shopping at Home Depot.
Fincher spoke at length about the action thriller at its Venice Film Festival press conference on Sunday, going into detail about how he developed its lead character, a calm and calculated assassin played by Michael Fassbender. “Sympathy was the last thing on my mind as it relates to this character,” Fincher said. “He didn’t need to be frightening.
You know, the banality of evil. My hope is that someone will see this film and get very nervous about the person behind them in line at Home Depot.” Viewers are invited inside the mind of Fassbender’s character, who goes by simply The Killer, in the film.
He does yoga, eats McGriddles without the bun and listens to the Smiths as he prepares to shoot his targets. On choosing the Smiths as the soundtrack for the Killer’s escapades, Fincher said: “I knew I wanted to use ‘How Soon Is Now’ and I loved the idea of that song specifically as a tool for assuaging his anxieties.
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