TORONTO MOVIE/TV NEWS

Monday, January 18, 2010

Summit Sees "Red" In Toronto

Principal photography has started in Toronto on Summit Entertainment's spy-thriller "Red", based on the DC Comics graphic novel of the same name by author Warren Ellis.

Joining previously announced actors Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker and Academy Award-winners Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman, are two-time Oscar-nominee John Malkovich, Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Academy Award winners Richard Dreyfuss and Ernest Borgnine, Julian McMahon, James Remar and Rebecca Pidgeon.

"...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 (Parker), endangered, Frank reassembles his old team (Freeman, Malkovich and Mirren) in a last ditch effort to survive..."

Directed by Robert Schwentke ("The Time Traveler's Wife") from a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber ("Whiteout"), the film is produced by di Bonaventura Pictures' Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"). Executive producers are Jake Myers ("Hollywoodland"") and Gregory Noveck ("Jonah Hex"). Di Bonaventura Pictures' production exec David Ready is co-producer.

Red reunites Schwentke with DP Florian Ballhaus ("Marley & Me") and Oscar-winning film editor Thom Noble ("Thelma & Louise") .


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Red" will shoot in and around the metro Toronto area for nine weeks before moving to New Orleans, late March for the final two weeks of principal photography.

The film is scheduled for worldwide release on October 22, 2010....