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The Gunman is a 2015 action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Don Macpherson, Pete Travis and Sean Penn, based on the novel The Prone Gunman (French title: La position du tireur couché) by Jean-Patrick Manchette. It stars Penn along with Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca and Ray Winstone. [4]
183. The Prone Gunman ( La Position du tireur couché) is a thriller written by Jean-Patrick Manchette that was published in 1981. [1]
Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris [1]) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that period. His stories are violent ...
Mar 20, 2015 · For Penn, "The Gunman" is a cross between a vanity project and an apparent attempt to reinvent his career in the same manner that Liam Neeson did under Morel's guidance in "Taken." Penn has delivered the occasionally awful acting turn over the years (as anyone who saw " I Am Sam ," "All the King's Men" and "Gangster Squad" can attest) but he at ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Three of his novels have been translated into English. Two were published by San Francisco publisher City Lights Books (3 To Kill [from the French "Le petit bleu de la côte ouest"] and The Prone Gunman [from the French "La Position du tireur couché"]). A third, Fatale, was released by New York Review Books Classics in 2011.
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Jun 1, 2002 · The Prone Gunman. Jean-Patrick Manchette. City Lights Publishers, Jun 1, 2002 - Fiction - 180 pages. "His books are all action, unfolding with a laconic efficiency that would make his killers proud."—The Economist. Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game—so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart.
The Gunman is a 2015 action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Don Macpherson, Pete Travis and Sean Penn, based on the novel The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette. It stars Penn along with Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca and Ray Winstone. The film is about Jim Terrier (Penn), a mercenary who assassinates the Minister of Mining of the Democratic ...
