Bruce Willis doesn’t tend to do things small. For example, he’s taking some of writer Warren Ellis’ atypically small and straightforward work, the three-issue espionage comic RED, and ramping up the action and tossing in some Oscar-worthy talent.
The movie is now officially underway in Toronto, under the eye of director Robert Schwentke (FLIGHTPLAN, THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE). The original comic followed a former CIA operative enjoying a solitary retirement until the new company director discovers his secrets and decides to make it permanent.
The movie version expands on that: RED is the story of Frank Moses (Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, who is now living a quiet life. That is, until the day a hi-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his identity compromised and the life of the woman he cares for, Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), endangered, Frank reassembles his old team (Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren) in a last ditch effort to survive.
The movie also features Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Academy Award®-winners Richard Dreyfuss and Ernest Borgnine, Julian McMahon, James Remar and Rebecca Pidgeon (making a rare movie without hubby David Mamet).
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