News: What the Fear

Fincher Given ?Killer?

by Giaco, Fri., Nov. 2, 2007 9:09 AM PDT
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From Variety
Paramount Pictures has picked up the rights to the graphic novel, The Killer. The company plans on using it as a directing vehicle for David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac). The film is based on a graphic novel by Matz and follows an assassin who suddenly feels the push of a guilty conscience. Just as he?s having a moral meltdown, a cop at the top of his game begins to suspect and trail the assassin. The graphic novel was originally published in France in 1988, and later made it?s U.S. debut in 10 segmented parts.