Andrew Douglas to Direct The Perfect Assassin
British director Andrew Douglas will helm The Perfect Assassin, which is being produced by The Orphanage co-producers Joaquin Padro and Mar Targarona at Barcelona’s Rodar y Rodar, and Robyn Slovo at London’s Company Pictures.
Based on a script by Paul Webb (Lincoln), this film is an adaptation of the novel Homage to a Firing Squad, from the work of Tariq Goddard, a young London-based writer. The premise follows the final months of Spain’s 1936-39 Civil War, the English-language film turns on two hit squads, one Republican, the other Nationalist, put together to kill the same politician, Don Rojo. One is made up of merciless killers, the other of three young Republican soldiers, all in love with Rojo’s daughter.
The concept is described as Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Three Kings with some Catch 22 thrown in for good measure. The pic will shoot entirely in Spain, on location and in studios, spring-summer 2010. I think it is really cool the partnership between the Spanish and British film industry. I hope it gets some US distribution as this is a film that sounds really cool and funny. In case you were wondering there will be no American actors in the film as they plan to cast out of both the U.K. and Spain.
Homage to a Firing Squad is currently available in the US on Amazon for around $12.00.
“Four young men are in a car on their way to assassinate the politician Don Rojo. Unfortunately, not one of them has assassinated anyone before, three of them are in love with the Don’s daughter, and, unbeknownst to them the politician is lying awake in his Hacienda, contemplating suicide. Goddard describes the events of one bizarre night in prose that is taut, evocative and often darkly funny. As the rain pours down on the Tibidabo road, the would-be-murderers encounter lusty barmaids, crises of conscience, road blocks and – with fatal results – the man who ordered Rojo’s assassination, and all the while the Spanish civil war boils around them. Eventually they converge on the hacienda (along with a couple of real assassins, a failed Don Juan and two over-sexed daughters) in a surreal and bullet-ridden climax that puts ‘Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ to shame.”
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