While his new film The Killer is available on Netflix, David Fincher believes that the platform offers an optimal viewing experience unlike cinemas today.
David Fincher’s return to directing was highly anticipated and the arrival of his new thriller, The Killer, on Netflix is one of the events of the end of the year. The filmmaker continues his partnership with the platform, with which he signed an exclusive contract for “content likely to bring them viewers, in [sa] small sphere of influence“, as he explained to First.
Thus, David Fincher delivered for Netflix the series Mindhunter and Love, Death + Robots but also the film Mank. Now he’s back with the thriller The Killer, an adaptation of the comics The killer by the French Alexis Nolent (Matz), on the screenplay, and Luc Jacamon, on the illustration, worked with his long-time collaborator Andrew Kevin Walker, who wrote the screenplay for Seven.
The filmmaker’s twelfth feature film quickly rose to first place in the top views on Netflix but it divided subscribers. Among the opinions of AlloCiné spectators, who still give it a score of 3.5 out of 5, some point to the collaboration between David Fincher and Netflix and find The Killer below the other cinematographic works of the American director.
David Fincher praises Netflix and criticizes movie theaters
However, the latter is very satisfied with his collaboration with the streaming service and even prefers it to the cinema, which has not hosted his films since Gone Girl, released in 2014. David Fincher is full of praise for Netflix in a recent interview for The world :
“I’ve worked for most of the major movie studios. When you say to them, ‘I have to do these special effects in 4K,’ their first response is ‘Oh, gee, why do it so expensive?’ They balk at the slightest expense.
Netflix has never quibbled with this type of choice. They adopted an industry standard that made sense to filmmakers. Netflix has by far the best ‘quality control’ in all of Hollywood.”
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If the filmmaker still loves movie theaters, like those of Grauman’s Chinese Theater or the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles, he believes that a considerable effort must be made to renovate them, improve them and equip them with the best possible tools for screenings. optimal.
“We will not save cinema as a culture by restricting home broadcasting systems. For this to happen, the cinema would have to become a cutting-edge place, and not this damp, smelly and greasy place that it still is too often. rare exceptions, skimping on all necessary expenses.”
For David Fincher, “we must move past all this nostalgia to finally ask ourselves the right question: who offers optimal representation today?”. The answer, according to him, therefore seems to be Netflix, his preferred partner for several years. But for how much longer?
The Killer movie is available on Netflix.