Michael Fassbender never blinked for the camera in David Fincher’s THE KILLER

One of my most anticipated upcoming films is David Fincherthe thriller about assassins The killer. As you know, Fincher is a very meticulous and detail-oriented director, and apparently he is the star of the film, Michael Fassbendertook things to another level with his performance as he seemingly never batted an eyelid while performing in front of the camera.

This interesting little detail to pay attention to while watching the film comes from the film’s cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt during a recent interview with Empire Magazine. Messerschmidt has previously worked with Fincher on projects like Mindhunter and Mank.

Messerschmidt called Fassbender “the perfect actor for David” and mentioned “how the focus puller highlighted something extraordinary: the actor didn’t blink at the camera for the entire shot.”

Fincher didn’t want the actor to blink and the director added: “Michael’s eyes give a lot away. He can hold many conflicting things in his mind and his eyes allow you to access them.

Speaking about working with Fincher on the film, Messerschmidt said: “I think you have to be impossible to deal with to be good at this – you have to be completely uncompromising, to the absolute limit, or you’ll never make it.” nothing good, and that’s scary. I see these masters of their craft, fighting for every inch.

Fincher then talked about what it was like working with Fassbender, saying, “He’s like Daniel Craig in that way, saying, ‘I can do it better.’ Tell him to stop a third of an inch shorter and he can fine-tune those technical things, and beyond that, he has really good ideas about behavior… He has this gift as an actor, but beyond that there’s this incredible discipline in the way in which he breaks down his next move.

As for why Fincher wanted to make this film, he said, “I thought the character’s nihilism was interesting because it was tied to his self-loathing. Then I started thinking about this internal monologue. He has all these things that he says to himself, which is a way to humiliate him so he can feel better about apparently being a serial killer for hire. I thought it might be interesting to sail.”

The story of the film is an adaptation of Alessio Nolentand the synopsis reads: “After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, in an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.”

In the story: “A solitary and cold man, methodical and without scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, awaiting his next target. Yet the longer he waits, the more he thinks he’s losing his mind, if not his composure. A brutal, bloody and elegant noir story of a professional assassin lost in a world without a moral compass, this is a case study of a lonely man, armed to the teeth and slowly losing his mind.

Based on the French graphic novel series by Alexis Nolent and adapted by Fincher’s “Fight Club” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, “The Killer” stars Fassbender as an assassin who finds himself unraveling after a job gone wrong. It’s also in the cast Tilda Swinton, Arliss Howard AND Sofia Carlotta. The film, supported by Netflix, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Fincher told Empire that he was drawn to the film because of the character’s personality, which is cold and methodical.

Netflix will release The killer in select theaters October 27. The film will begin streaming on November 10.