'The Killer' Filming Wraps Up In St. Charles

ST. CHARLES, IL — Those checking out a Netflix thriller "The Killer" when it comes out in the next year will likely be able to spot some familiar locales in it.

Award-winning director David Fincher, who was behind "Gone Girl" and "Fight Club," recently wrapped up filming his newest film in downtown St. Charles, according to the Daily Herald. Much of his filming took place at the historic Hotel Baker and along the Fox River.

The executive producer for the movie, which also shot in Paris, New Orleans and the Dominican Republic, decided on St. Charles for shooting scenes for "The Killer," St. Charles Mayor Lora Vitek told the Daily Herald.

"He had made a comment that he had come here, and he knew this was a place he would want to come film a movie," she said. "I think that's pretty cool. Obviously, we've got a very unique location with the river and, at night, the lights shine on the Hotel Baker. It's just a very unique, cool setting for a movie."

Michael Fassbender stars in "The Killer" alongside Tilda Swinton, according to What's New On Netflix, a website that shares Netflix news. Fassbender is known for his work in several "X-Men" movies, "Steve Jobs" and "Macbeth," and plays the killer in "The Killer." Swinton is known for her work in "Snowpiercer," "The French Dispatch" and Marvel's "Doctor Strange."

IMDb provides this description of the film, which is based on a comic book with the same name:

A man solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits, the more he thinks he's losing his mind, if not his cool. A brutal, bloody and stylish noir story of a professional assassin lost in a world without a moral compass, this is a case study of a man alone, armed to the teeth and slowly losing his mind.

The film is expected to be released on Netflix later this year or early in 2023.

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