Sean Penn takes on his first action role in The Gunman
The Gunman movie is the new action thriller movie starring Sean Penn, and co-starring Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone and directed by Pierre Morel. The Gunman is the adaptation of the novel The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette. The movie is being produced by Joel Silver and Andrew Rona whereas the screenplay is being done by Peter Travis. As the movie has scheduled to be released worldwide by 2014 here are some interesting information about the movie The Gunman.
The plot
In The Gunman movie, Sean Penn stars as Jim Terrier, a former Special Forces soldier and military contractor. He is a person who is being betrayed by the organization where he works. Then he is forced to go on the run in a relentless game of cat-and-mouse across Europe.
What the? Who is this? I can't tell if that's Arnold or Sly or Brody or Butler underneath that grime and sweat and those muscles. Nah, I'm kidding, this just doesn't look like the usual Sean Penn we've come to expect. Then again the same could be said about Sean Penn in This Must Be the Place. Then the USA Today have debuted the first look at a photo from The Gunman, a new action movie starring Penn. "Here's the funny thing, calling it an 'action film' is kind of like calling Meryl Streep. She is. But that really doesn't tell the it.
Penn stars as Martin Terrier, a former Special Forces soldier and military contractor who works peacefully for a non-government organization in the Congo. But Terrier gets drawn back into his violent past. Set for 2014. This movie is produced by Adrián Guerra, Peter McAleese, Andrew Rona and Joel Silver. Cinematography is being done by Flavio Martínez Labiano.
The Cast
Sean Penn as Jim Terrier
Idris Elba as Dupont
Peter Franzén as Reiniger
Mark Schardan as Procurement Chief
Tony Corvillo as audience Member #1
Ray Winstone
Jasmine Trinca
Mark Rylance
Rachel Lascar