The Gunman (2015 film)
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The Gunman is a 2015 action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Don Macpherson, Pete Travis and Sean Penn, based on the novel The Prone Gunman (French title: La position du tireur couché) by Jean-Patrick Manchette. It stars Penn along with Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca and Ray Winstone.[4] The film is about Jim Terrier (Penn), a mercenary who assassinates the Minister of Mining of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006 on orders from multinational mining companies. Eight years after Terrier has retired from mercenary work, he and the people close to him become the targets of hit squads sent by a powerful multinational security firm, and he must fight to stay alive. The film was released on March 20, 2015 by Open Road Films. It was a box office bomb, grossing just $24 million against its $40 million budget and receiving a poor critical reception.
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Directed by | Pierre Morel |
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Based on | The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette |
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Cinematography | Flavio Labiano |
Edited by | Frédéric Thoraval |
Music by | Marco Beltrami |
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Distributed by | Open Road Films (United States) StudioCanal (United Kingdom and France)[1] DeAPlaneta (Spain)[1] |
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Running time | 115 minutes[2] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $40 million[3] |
Box office | $24.2 million[1] |