Already this year, I have gone into detail on my favourite director and my favourite actor. Well,
considering how I exist as a series of words on a page, it only fits to reason
that I would eventually get to my favourite screenwriter. And chances are, even
if you don’t know the specific name, you have seen his work before. Ladies and
gentlemen and others, may I present the one, the only, Andrew Kevin Walker.
As a writer,
the man doesn’t just create stories; he creates breathing universes for them to
inhabit. His best-known work as the writer of David Fincher’s Se7en had him
give so much detail to an unnamed city that it became a character in its own
right, one whose soul had to be fought for by the characters. No other writer
that I have come across has shown such prowess at world-building and story
detail, always being able to scratch that particular itch for me.
Naturally,
with all this in mind, I’ve been keeping an ear out for when his latest film
would become available over here in Australia; dude’s been quiet for a few
years now and, even though films like John Wick have served well along the same
lines of narrative dimension, I need my AKW fix. So, how does his latest venture
turn out?
