Red Mercury (film)
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| Red Mercury | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Roy Battersby |
| Produced by | Peter Ansorge Meenu Bachan Vibha Bhatnagar Dr. Phil Blackburn Michael Wearing |
| Written by | Farrukh Dhondy |
| Starring | Stockard Channing Pete Postlethwaite Juliet Stevenson Ron Silver David Bradley |
| Music by | Colin Towns |
| Cinematography | Uday Tiwari |
| Editing by | Jeremy Gibbs |
| Release date(s) |  May 13, 2005 June 5, 2007 |
| Running time | 113 min. |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £2,000,000 UK (est.) |
| IMDb profile | |
Red Mercury is a 2005 United Kingdom film starring Stockard Channing, Pete Postlethwaite, Juliet Stevenson, Ron Silver and David Bradley, and directed by Roy Battersby.[1]
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[edit] Plot summary
The film is thriller about a terrorist kidnapping.[2] Three terrorist bomb-makers get a tipoff that their safehouse is about to be raided; flee on foot; kidnap hostages in an attempt to escape.[3]
[edit] Production
The film was produced quickly, was written, produced and filmed over a four month period.[3]
The film was the first film aimed for a Western audience produced by a new film production company named Inspire, that planned to apply Bollywood film production methods to films made in the United Kingdom[3]:
“The company was originally set up to do Bollywood films in London that could take advantage of Gordon Brown’s very generous tax breaks. It was Farrukh who persuaded them to start doing British movies. I suppose our analogy was the early Film on Four - a contemporary work which had a more extended life than a TV movie. And it grew from there.”
According to the producers the writer, Farrukh Dhondy, was interviewed by British counter-terrorism officials, to verify that the bomb-plot in the script was unrelated to their active investigations.[4]
[edit] Release
The film was released at the 2005 Cannes film festival.[5] It did not have a theatrical release in the USA, being released to DVD in June 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ "Red Mercury", IMDB. Retrieved on 2008-01-09.
- ^ "Stockard Channing: One tough cookie", The Independent, 16 February 2005. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
- ^ a b c "PLAYING DIRTY", Preview Online. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
- ^ "Red Mercury featured in The Guardian", Inspired films. Retrieved on 2008-01-10. "Two weeks ago, however, Farrukh was visited by Special Branch's anti-terrorism unit, who quizzed him about the script and demanded how he knew about red mercury."
- ^ "Red Mercury release information", IMDB. Retrieved on 2008-01-09.
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