Behind the Scenes of The Killer with David Fincher

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It's time to go behind the scenes of the Netflix thriller movie The Killer, directed by David Fincher.  The Killer Cast:  Michael Fassbender, Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Kerry O'Malley, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte and Tilda Swinton  Stream The Killer now on Netflix!

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00:00 Consider yourself lucky if our paths never cross.

00:04 Except luck isn't real.

00:07 The thing that interested me about the graphic novel

00:11 was this idea of intercepting thought

00:14 and how intercepted thought is proffered in cinema.

00:19 You sat down, the movie begins,

00:21 and you hear something that is deeply personal.

00:25 I serve no god, I fly no flag.

00:29 And I think that most people feel

00:32 that what they're hearing is the unadulterated truth.

00:37 What is voiceover? What does it mean?

00:40 And we started talking about the idea of this mantra.

00:44 This is my framework, this is how I understand

00:47 what it is that I do for a living,

00:49 and I'm not a serial killer,

00:51 I'm somebody who solves a problem for somebody else.

00:54 Stick to your plan.

00:56 Anticipate, don't improvise.

00:59 Fight only the battle you're paid to fight.

01:03 Forbid empathy.

01:05 And what if that begins to crumble

01:07 and you start to lose a brick here and a brick there?

01:10 Stick to the plan, stick to the plan, stick to your plan.

01:14 Let's rattle the cage of what a voiceover is meant to exist for,

01:20 and what if this is self-delusion?

01:24 There are tropes in this Aston movies that I question,

01:28 and the idea of the men in black basement

01:32 with all the stainless steel

01:34 and rack after rack after rack of different rocket launchers.

01:38 There are more than 50,000 storage facilities in the U.S.

01:42 I like to imagine the episode of Storage Wars

01:45 where they cut the lock on one of mine and get a look inside.

01:48 He wants to keep a low profile,

01:50 so he's driving an Aston Martin DB-12

01:53 with the wardrobe.

01:54 This guy has to be able to put an entire ensemble together

01:58 walking through an airport.

01:59 So, sketchers, yeah, 'cause there's a sketcher store

02:02 in an airport.

02:03 My camo is based on a German tourist I saw in London a while back.

02:08 No one really wants to interact with a German tourist.

02:12 Parisians avoid them like the rest of the world

02:14 avoids street mimes.

02:17 In revenge movies, there's something to the construction

02:21 of a character getting back at the people who've done him wrong.

02:26 Nothing like this will ever be allowed to happen again.

02:30 And generally speaking, you give him free reign

02:33 to do whatever he feels is appropriate

02:36 in terms of his response.

02:38 And I like the idea of you're invested in this guy

02:42 who's wearing a costume,

02:44 and he has to pretend to be a delivery person,

02:46 and he has to get through this security door,

02:49 and he has to time it all out.

02:51 Normally, in these kinds of movies,

02:53 the audience goes, "Great, he's gonna get his revenge."

02:55 What we wanted to play with was, "Oh, great, he got in the room

02:58 with a nail gun."

03:00 I'm not sure I want to see what comes next.

03:03 [music]

03:08 (bell dinging)

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