“Retired” hit men. Former special ops officers. Ex-Mob enforcers. What do they have in common? If they’re on screen, they’ve got big problems, and usually a family member or two just waiting to get caught in the crosshairs when their past comes firing back to bother them. That’s what’s facing Sean Penn in the first promo for The Gunman, arriving via Yahoo.
Penn plays Jim Terrier, a former special forces-type still haunted by the things he did when he was on active duty. And one particular mission is itching at his conscience, a job that was supposed to help people, but ended up more in tragedy than triumph.
So when he decides to expose what really happened, he becomes the target of his former fellow shooters and bosses, with the likes of Mark Rylance, Ray Winstone, Idris Elba and Javier Bardem out to get him. Oh, and his girlfriend, played by Jasmine Trinca is probably going to wish she’d never met him...
Pierre Morel is behind the camera for this one, looking to do for Penn and co what he did with Liam Neeson (though let’s face it – Winstone, Elba and even Bardem have nothing to prove with their action chops). Don MacPherson and Pete Travis adapted Jean-Patrick Manchette’s novel The Prone Gunman and the film will be out on February 20.