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David Fincher: Cancelled World War Z 2 "A Little Like The Last Of Us"

The Killer director David Fincher was signed on to direct a sequel to World War Z that he now says he's glad didn't happen because it was "a little like The Last of Us."

We are about to be blessed with a new David Fincher movie this weekend in some theaters and on Netflix soon. While most conversations are focused on how good The Killer is, Fincher has been involved with some of the biggest projects that have helped shape pop culture, not to mention one of the best TV shows that Netflix has made so far. [No, I'm not over Mindhunter not getting a season three, and no, I won't shut up about it]. However, just because we look back at Fincher's work with fond eyes doesn't mean he does. He recently revealed in an interview with GQ that he hasn't watched Fight Club in twenty years, and when asked if he has an aversion to watching his old work, Fincher replied, "No— yes. It's like looking at your grade school pictures or something. 'Yeah, I was there.'"

Fincher was also connected to the infamously hanging out in development hell sequel to World War Z. The first film, which has become legendary because the entire third act was changed in reshoots and its departure from the source material, underperformed critically but did go on to make over $500 million at the worldwide box office in 2013. Fincher was once attached to the sequel, and he revealed that he's glad their film didn't end up happening because it was similar in some ways to The Last Of Us.

"Well, it was a little like The Last of Us. I'm glad that we didn't do what we were doing because The Last of Us has a lot more real estate to explore the same stuff," Fincher explained. "In our title sequence, we were going to use the little parasite… they used it in their title sequence, and in that wonderful opening with the Dick Cavett, David Frost-style talk show."

One of the things that people didn't like about World War Z was how different it was from the source material to the detriment of the film itself. Sometimes, films being different from books isn't a bad thing. Fincher's own Fight Club is a perfect example of the movie being better than the book, but that wasn't the case for World War Z. When asked if the sequel he was working on was closer to the source material, Fincher replied, "No, no. But there is some talk of doing that." So maybe there is some hope that a proper adaptation of this book might happen. However, between The Last of Us and The Walking Dead spinoffs and everything that has happened in the zombie genre in the last decade, what could a book-accurate World War Z adaptation bring that we haven't seen before?

The Killer: Summary, Cast List, Release Date

After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

The Killer is directed by David Fincher and is based on a French graphic novel of the same name by Alexis Nolent and Luc Jacamon. The screenplay is written by Andrew Kevin Walker with William Doyle, Peter Mavromates, and Ceán Chaffin. It stars Michael Fassbender as The Killer, Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Kerry O'Malley, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte, Tilda Swinton, Emiliano Pernía, and Gabriel Polanco. It will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 3rd, will receive a limited theatrical release on October 27th, and will stream to Netflix on November 10th.

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