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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]
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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 ...
Jun 1, 2002 · The Prone Gunman is a classic of modern noir."For Manchette and the generation of writers who followed him, the crime novel is no mere entertainment, but a means to strip bare the failures of society, ripping through veils of appearance, deceit, and manipulation to the greed and violence that are the society's true engines."—Boston Globe ...
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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The Gunman. The Gunman is a 2015 action film based on the novel The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette and directed by Pierre Morel (who also directed District 13, the first Taken movie, and From Paris with Love ). It stars Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance, and Javier Bardem. In 2006, a professional assassin working for the ...
Mar 30, 2015 · The original novel, The Prone Gunman, by Jean-Patrick Manchette, is one of the most influential French romans noirs. It was published in 1981 in the iconic “ Série Noire ”. Ostensibly it is ...
