The Gunman (2015) [R]

Featuring:
Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca

Written by:
Jean-Patrick Manchette
Don MacPherson
Pete Travis

Directed by:
Pierre Morel


Release Date:
February 16, 2015

Original Title:
The Gunman

Alternate Titles:
A cél
Gunman: El objetivo
Le tireur
O Franco Atirador
The Gunman
Ганмен
Ґанмен
卧底枪手

Genres:
Action | Crime | Drama

Production Companies:
Anton Capital Entertainment
Canal+
ICEC
Nostromo Pictures
Prone Gunman
Prone Gunman A.I.E.
Silver Pictures
StudioCanal
TF1 Films Production

Production Countries:
France | Spain | United Kingdom | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AR: 16  BR: 16  CA: 14A  DE: 16  FR: 12  GB: 15  GR: 15  HU: 16  IE: 15  IT: T  JP: PG12  LT: N-16  NL: 16  NO: 15  NZ: 16  RU: 18+  SE: 15  US: R 

Runtime: 115

Armed with the truth.

Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, working for an unknown client, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's (Sean Penn's) successful kill shot forces him to go into hiding to protect himself and the members of the team from retribution. This includes abruptly abandoning his girlfriend who has no idea what is going on. The assassination, paid for by a foreign mining company, triggers wide spread chaos and death in an already inflamed Congo. Terrier returns to the Congo years later working for an NGO, but eventually finds himself to be the target of a paid hit squad somehow connected to the ministers assassination. This leads to immediate deaths and the endangerment of the people working around him, and forces him back into hiding. In trying to discover who has put a price on his head, he begins to reconnect to the members of his old assassination team, including his old girlfriend. Always aware there is no path to redemption for his crimes, he is also periodically incapacitated by a type of accumulated and evolving physical brain damage caused by the hard knocks of his occupation. Unexpectedly, given the time that has elapsed, his reconnection to his old assassination team exposes additional intrigues with immediate deadly consequences. All of his years spent in hiding, have merely delayed the twisted end game that now enfolds.

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Rankings and Honors

The Gunman (2015) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes 15%
Metacritic 39/100
Awards Won: 1 nomination total

ADR Mixer:
Peter Gleaves

Aerial Director of Photography:
Adam Dale

Armorer:
Adam Goodall
Nick Jeffries

Art Department Coordinator:
Joan Sabaté

Art Direction:
Gemma Fauria
Marina Pozanco
Sylvia Steinbrecht
Christophe Dalberg

Associate Producer:
Stephen Bender
Ethan Erwin
Carmel Musgrove

Boom Operator:
Jorge Adrados

Casting:
Reg Poerscout-Edgerton

Co-Producer:
Alex Heineman
Adam Kuhn
Ray Kybartas

Costume Coordinator:
Nuria Pascual-Andújar

Costume Design:
Jill Taylor

Costume Supervisor:
Cristina Sopeña

Dialect Coach:
William Conacher

Dialogue Editor:
Davide Favargiotti

Director:
Pierre Morel

Director of Photography:
Flavio Martínez Labiano

Editor:
Frédéric Thoraval

Executive Producer:
Olivier Courson
Peter McAleese
Adrián Guerra
Steve Richard
Aaron Auch

Fight Choreographer:
Markos Rounthwaite
Steve McQuillan

First Assistant Camera:
Álvaro Fernández Puig
Jordi Florensa
Imanol Nabea

First Assistant Director:
Raymond Kirk

First Assistant Editor:
Emanuele Giraldo
Andrew Walton

Foley Artist:
Andrea King
Jack Stew

Foley Editor:
Hugo Adams

Gaffer:
José Luis Rodríguez

Hair Designer:
Graham Johnston

Hairstylist:
Paul Job
Bret Mayo
Manolo García

Key Costumer:
Eva Salas

Key Grip:
Salva Castellarnau
Javier González Leonardo

Line Producer:
Sally French

Location Manager:
Tim Maw

Makeup Artist:
Francesca Van Der Feyst
Ana Lozano
Caitlin Acheson
Vivienne Simpson

Makeup Designer:
Graham Johnston

Modeling:
Justi Romero

Music Editor:
John Warhurst

Music Supervisor:
Bastide Donny

Novel:
Jean-Patrick Manchette

Orchestrator:
Matt Dunkley

Original Music Composer:
Marco Beltrami

Pilot:
Marc Wolff

Post Production Assistant:
Leopold Hughes

Producer:
Andrew Rona
Sean Penn
Ron Halpern

Production Coordinator:
Asia Jarzyna
Marta del Río

Production Design:
Andrew Laws

Production Sound Mixer:
Colin Nicolson

Property Master:
Dave Fisher
Héctor Gil

Screenplay:
Don MacPherson
Sean Penn
Pete Travis

Script Supervisor:
Morag Cameron

Set Costumer:
Inge Hough
Anna Izquierdo

Set Decoration:
Anneke Botha

Set Designer:
Florian Müller

Sound Designer:
Paul Carter

Sound Editor:
Frédéric Dubois

Sound Effects Designer:
Rob Prynne

Sound Recordist:
Biel Cabré

Special Effects Makeup Artist:
Nathaniel De'Lineadeus
Chris Lyons

Special Effects Supervisor:
Pau Costa

Still Photographer:
Keith Bernstein
Joe Alblas

Stunt Coordinator:
Jordi Casares
Glenn Foster

Stunt Double:
Antonio Arnalte
Levan Doran
Zarene Dallas

Supervising Art Director:
Stuart Kearns

Supervising Dialogue Editor:
Michael Maroussas

Title Designer:
Nic Benns

Visual Effects Coordinator:
Mehul Jhaveri
Vinay Karunakar
Shreyas Dorwat
Kevin Sheldon Saldanha
Mohak Sharma
Devika Kawle

Visual Effects Editor:
Andy Hague

Visual Effects Producer:
Rachel Wheeler

Visual Effects Supervisor:
Stuart Lashley
Jon Thum

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