A new trailer for The Killer just dropped… and there are a few similarities to Hitman.
The impressive new trailer shows Michael Fassbender racking up an impressive body count, especially when you consider that the teaser is just 1 minute and 24 seconds long.
You watch the trailer below.
Fassbender stars as The Killer – an unnamed assassin who’s on a mission to take down his own. Even that sounds a lot like Agent 47, and the similarities only get more obvious as the trailer progresses.
Sure, it’s a movie about a hitman, and that’s bound to have at least some similarities to everyone’s favorite ICA agent… but some of them are just uncanny.
Thankfully, the action and overall tone are pretty on the (Blood) money too, so The Killer comes across as the greatest Hitman movie that was never made. It almost makes you wonder whether director David Fincher is a bit of an Agent 47 fan.
Alongside Fassbender, we also find Tilda Swinton, although it’s unclear whether her character will be anything like Diana Burnwood…
Even the music in the trailer conjures that familiar Jesper Kyd vibe with a thumping electronic score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Then there's all those wonderfully framed hits - taking a leaf out of Agent 47's book, it looks as though The Killer is every bit as ruthlesslessly efficient.
Unfortunately, it’s not actually based on Hitman at all – instead it has been adapted from the 1998 graphic novel by writer Alexis Nolent and artist Luc Jacamon.
A brief synopsis from Netflix gives us some idea of what it’s all about:
After a fateful near miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
The Killer is written by Andrew Kevin Walker based on the aforementioned graphic novel that was originally published in French by Editions Casterman.
The Killer debuts in select theaters in October before heading to Netflix on November 10, 2023.
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Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
