Fincher & Paramount pursue a ‘Killer’

Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to the graphic novel The Killer, and is developing it as a potential directing vehicle for David Fincher– who's previously helmed Zodiac and the upcoming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for the studio.

The film will be produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Alexandra Milchan.

Scribe Allesandro Camon will adapt the graphic novel, writen by Matz (real name Alexis Nolent), which centers around a top assassin suffering a crisis of conscience, who also has a highly competent cop on his trail.

I love David Fincher. Fight Club is one of my favorite films, and I've never seen a film of his that I did not enjoy on some level.

That said- you've got to be f**king kidding me. Hasn't this film already been made, way back in 1989 by John Woo? I mean, come on- even the title is the same! The Killer (89) is an absolute classic- featuring arguably Chow Yun Fat's best performance, and the film plays just as well in 2007 as it did eighteen years ago.

Now- I've never read the graphic novel by Matz. Maybe it's radically different from Woo's film- and I certainly hope so, because the original cannot be improved. Surely if a guy like Fincher is attached to the project– it must be something more than a simple rehash of Woo's classic.