Release Date:
15 October 2010 (USA)

Genre:
Action, Comedy

Production Companies:
Di Bonaventura Pictures
Summit Entertainment

Distributing Companies:
Summit Entertainment (2010) (USA – theatrical)
E1 Entertainment (2010) (UK – theatrical)
Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG) (2010) (Germany – theatrical)
RCV Film Distribution (2010) (Belgium – theatrical)
SND (2010) (France) (theatrical)
Aurum Films (2010) (Spain – theatrical)
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2010) (Switzerland – all media)
CatchPlay (2010) (Taiwan – all media)

Filming locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Cruickston Park, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Harahan, Louisiana, USA

Director:
Robert Schwentke

Starring:
Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Richard Dreyfuss, Brian Cox, James Remar, Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, Michelle Nolden, Amber Gaiennie, Audrey Wasilewski, Jonathan Walker, Justine Wachsberger, Jaqueline Fleming, Emily Kuroda, Ritchie Montgomery, Laura DeCarteret, Lawrence Turner, Cedric Burton, Jason Giuliano, John Stead, Robert Morse, Neil Whitely, Tara Yelland, Chris Whetstone, Logan Douglas Smith,Randy Wade Kelley, Nancy Ward, Matthew Olver, Annette Denise Bass(uncredited), Mindy Caraccioli (uncredited),Felder Charbonnet (uncredited), David Fultz (uncredited), Jake Goodman (uncredited), Russell M. Haeuser (uncredited), Emily Haley (uncredited), Kurt W. Howard (uncredited),Chris Owens (uncredited), Joshua Peace (uncredited),Devon Richards (uncredited), Daniel Vincent (uncredited), Dana Walsh (uncredited), Cindy Williamson (uncredited)

Writer:
Warren Ellis (story and characters), Cully Hamner (illustration), Erich Hoeber (screenplay), Jon Hoeber (screenplay)

Producer:
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (producer), Mark Vahradian (producer), Jake Myers (executive producer), Gregory Noveck (executive producer), David Ready (co-producer)

Cinematography by:
Florian Ballhaus

Film Editor:
Thom Noble

Casting by:
Deborah Aquila

Production Designer:
Alec Hammond Read More »

The film adaptation of Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s “Red” will reportedly start shooting in January.

According to Mania, principle photography will begin in Toronto before moving to Louisiana. Bruce Willis is attached to star as a retired CIA Agent who is targeted for assassination. Morgan Freeman is also signed for a currently unrevealed role.

Earlier this summer, “Red” director Robert Schwentke exclusively told MTV News that the tone of the film would be much lighter than Ellis’ original story.

“I love the script,” Schwentke said. “It’s very funny, which the comic book isn’t. I like switching gears and this is a movie that allows me to do something lighthearted in tone and is also an action movie.” Read More »

Negotiations between Robert Schwentke and Summit Entertainment must have gone well, because the “Time Traveler’s Wife” director has confirmed his status onboard their film adaptation of Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s WildStorm miniseries “Red.” And by his own admission, the project will be a much lighter vision of the source material.

In fact, the new movie starring Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis could turn out to be more of a comedy than Ellis originally envisioned.

“I love the script,” Schwentke said told MTV News. “It’s very funny, which the comic book isn’t.”

Humor might not be the only difference between the comic and movie if the script Schwentke saw makes it into production.

“It’s not as violent as the comic book,” the director explained. However, he was quick to add that the espionage elements of the revised tale first attracted him to the property.

“I like switching gears and this is a movie that allows me to do something lighthearted in tone and is also an action movie,” he said.

The director called the alterations necessary, at least in part, due to the length of the three-issue miniseries about an ex-CIA agent being chased by a high-tech assassin. [more]

Source: MTV

WildStorm/DC Comic Spy Thriller Red is probably a future project for Morgan Freeman if he finishes the talks with Summit Entertainment to play alongside Bruce Willis.

Brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber are writing the script for the story of a former black-ops CIA agent now living a quiet life in retirement until the day a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him.

Source: Films ‘N Movies

You know, I think Morgan Freeman likes playing in the comic book world. After turns in Wanted, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight, Freeman is currently in talks to join another DC production. According to Variety, he’s in talks to costar with Bruce Willis in Red, an adaptation of Warren Ellis’ 3-book series.

Ellis’ series centers on a former black-ops CIA agent named Moses. He’s retired and enjoying the quiet life, and the CIA is happy to let him do so, until a new director is hired, and decides to pull up his file. When the director finds out what Moses actually did, he decides that he’s a liability, and sends a high tech assassin to kill him. When the book was optioned last year, it was reported they’d added a love interest, and that Moses would be getting the old team back together. There would also be a generational divide as Moses contends with younger agents who rely on new and improved gadgets. Variety doesn’t say whether all those new twists and turns have been kept, but I suspect they have, as three issues aren’t quite enough to make a movie out of.

Red is one of the only DC Comics to jump the Warner Bros. ship, and is being produced at Summit Entertainment. Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber are penning the script, and the movie doesn’t yet have a director. Maybe Freeman can lure in his Invictus boss, and break him into the comic book world?

Source: Cinematical

Morgan Freeman is quickly becoming the go to guy for comic book movies.

Freeman is in talks to co-star in “Red” alongside Bruce Willis, according to Variety. The comic book miniseries follows Paul Moses, a retired CIA assassin who is targeted by the agency’s new director as a way to cover up Moses greatest hits.

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Does that ever work? Of course Moses comes out of retirement to take down his hunters. Willis will make an effective Moses, and we can see Freeman as CIA director Michael Beesley.

The actor has also starred in comic-book movies “Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight” and “Wanted.”

Viola Davis may be joining a different kind of literary adaptation: She’s in talks to co-star in “Eat, Pray, Love.”

Davis would play Delia, best friend to the main character played by Julia Roberts. The movie, based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2007 memoir “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia,” stars Roberts as the author in search of meaning after a bad divorce.

Source: zap2it

Morgan Freeman is in negotiations to join Bruce Willis in Summit Entertainment’s upcoming thriller “Red”.

Red currently in development at Summit Entertainment, is one of the few DC Comics projects not stewing at Warner Bros. Pictures.

The original three part comic was written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner for release in 2003 and 2004. Its story follows a retired black-ops agent who finds himself the target of the same men who trained him. Think Taken meets The Bourne films to get a flavor for the action.

The script is currently being written by brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber who worked collaboratively on the thriller Whiteout starring Kate Beckinsale and Gabriel Macht.

Source: HDR