EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman) and Jurgen Prochnow (The Da Vinci Code) have joined Pierce Brosnan in the war veteran story The Last Rifleman.
The deadline revealed for the first time that Brosnan was leading director Terry Loane’s (Mickybo And Me) project before TIFF. Inspired by a true story, Brosnan will play Artie Crawford, a World War II veteran who lives in a nursing home in Northern Ireland and has just lost his wife. On the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landing, he decides to flee his nursing home and embarks on a trip to France to pay his final respects.
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The main photography takes place from February in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Developed with support from Northern Ireland Screen, the film was written by Kevin Fitzpatrick and is being produced by Katy Jackson and John Leslie of Wee Buns. It is co-produced by Jacqueline Kerrin and Dominic Wright of Ripple World Pictures. Mark Huffam Kevin Jackson, Nick Leese, Eloise Singer and Tommie Curran are executive producers.
Louis Gosset Jr. is represented by Innovative Artists & Silver Lining Entertainment. Jürgen Prochnow is represented by David Rose from Innovative Artists and Jean-Pierre Henraux from Henraux Management.
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