Things are certainly gearing up on the DC Comics Adpaptation, Red, in which Bruce Willis will star as former black-ops CIA agent Paul Moses, who’s forced out of retirement when the new director of the CIA learns about what Moses used to get up to and sends high-tech assassins to kill him. He teams up with some of his old friends to fight off the new foes.
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
The film, which is due to be directed by Robert Schwentke, has already lined up Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John C. Reilly and Mary-Louise Parker to co-star, and now it looks like Richard Dreyfuss, Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine and Brian Cox may also be joining the ever starrier cast list.
THR reports that they’re all in talks to join the movie, with McMahon as the Vice President, who’s at the centre of a shadow conspiracy, the veteran Borgnine (who’s still work at age 92) playing the keeper of the CIA’s darkest records, Dreyfuss taking on a wealthy man who builds a fortune out of government contracts and Brian Cox as Willis’ former Cold War sky nemesis.
It’s certainly turning into quite a cast, which should mark this out as something a little bit different to your average comic adaptation. The film is due to start shooting early next year, for a November 2010 release. It’s definitely one to keep an eye on.