At this point, you can file “Red” into a film that we’re officially anticipating this fall. Yeah, we never thought this one would fly onto our radars the way that it has, but you can thank the impressive trailers for that. The film follows Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), a retired black-ops CIA agent who finds that his former bosses are trying to kill him. Scrambling to survive and to protect the woman he loves (Mary Louise-Parker), he reassembles his old team (Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich, who is at his free-wheeling eccentric best) for the inevitable one last job.
Helping to stoke our excitement for the film is word that David Holmes, DJ and film composer who has most notably worked on Steven Soderbergh’s “Out Of Sight” and his “Ocean’s Eleven” trilogy of films, is set to lend his talents to “Red.” Sweet. The Robert Schwentke-directed film opens on October 15th.
And we apologize for getting on to this news about a month too late, but somehow it escaped our notice. Danny Elfman has been tapped to pen the score for Paul Haggis’ forthcoming drama “The Next Three Days.” The film starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde and Brian Dennehy is remake of the 2007 French movie “Pour Elle,” and follows “an English teacher who devises a daring plan and takes extreme actions to rescue his wife from jail where she has been wrongfully imprisoned for murder.”
The film is set to hit theaters on November 19th.