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| 06 February 2009 | Pics From Michael Caine Brit Thriller
The name's Brown, Harry Brown |
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| As attentive readers will have noticed, Michael Caine signed up for Harry Brown back in September and we've got pics of Caine on location in a suitably dank part of London, looking focused as the titular antihero.
Billed as an urban Western, the film sees Caine play the titular Harry Brown, an ex-Marine (which explains the pea coat) and widower forced to journey through a seedy world of drugs and guns to take revenge for the brutal death of his best friend at the hands of a gang of thugs.
To our ears it sounds like it's pitched somewhere between Get Carter and Gran Turino - Brown is an ex-Marine so we'd expect his line in vengeance to be fairly no-nonsense, although whether he channels Jack Carter's ice-blooded amorality remains to be seen.
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Caine joins Emily Mortimer and Liam Cunningham, alongside a wealth of up-and-comers including Adulthood's Plan B, Jack O'Connell (Eden Lake), Joseph Gilgun (This Is England) and Sean Harris (24 Hour Party People), at least some of who will presumably go toe-to-toe with Caine's vengeful pensioner.
Harry Brown is the debut feature for director Daniel Barber, who was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2008 Oscars for The Tonto Woman.
| | Phil de Semlyen |
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