Pierce Brosnan Joins ‘St. Vincent’

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Pierce Brosnan is an Undercover Hitman in Walter Hill’s St. Vincent
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If “48 Hours” director Walter Hill’s “St. Vincent” turns out to have a little bit of comedy in it, it’ll probably look a little like star Pierce Brosnan’s 2005 movie “The Matador”, where Brosnan also plays a hitman, albeit an eccentric one. Hill’s “St. Vincent” will find Brosnan once again playing a hitman, this time going undercover as a priest in order to get close to a former mob informant, to be played by Billy Bob Thornton, but apparently discovers that pretending to be a good guy is kinda dangerous for a mob killer. Whatever that means. See, that sounds like it’s kind of an action-comedy, though Variety calls the film a crime thriller.

Besides Brosnan and Thornton as hitman and hittee, “St. Vincent” will also star Maria Bello and Giovanni Ribisi, and is set to shoot on location in Detroit on July 12, with Hill directing from a script by Cameron Young.

No word on what characters Ribisi and Bello will be playing, but Maria Bello (below) being Maria Bello (re: she’s real purty), my guess is she’s the love interest.

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Pierce Brosnan has replaced Mickey Rourke in St. Vincent for director Walter Hill.

It looked like Walter Hill’s crime thriller St. Vincent had fallen by the wayside when original star Mickey Rourke dropped out of the project – following his Oscar nominated performance in The Wrestler.

Well that’s far from the case, as former James Bond star, Pierce Brosnan, has slipped into the vacated role. St. Vincent is up for grabs at the Cannes Film Festival with shooting starting on July 12th in Detroit.

Billy Bob Thornton, Maria Bello, who starred with Brosnan in Butterfly on A Wheel (or Shattered depending on where you caught it), as well as Giovanni Ribisi have also joined the St. Vincent cast.

According to Variety:

“St. Vincent follows a hitman (Brosnan) who goes undercover as a priest to get close to his target, a gangland traitor (Thornton). The hitman soon discovers that playing the good guy is more dangerous than being a mob killer.”

It’s good to see Hill back in the saddle directing again, as his last big screen effort was Undisputed in 2002. He knows how to assemble a tense action-thriller with strong (and at times blatant) western undertones which can be seen in films like 48 Hours, Last Man Standing and The Long Riders.

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As for Brosnan, the actor is developing an interesting and varied post-Bond career. His recent role in Roman Polanski’s superb thriller The Ghost showed the actor tinkering with his image – stepping into the shoes of an embattled British Prime Minister. The new St. Vincent role is kindred in spirit to his hit-man performance in the under-rated The Matador.

Brosnan’s business partner Beau St. Clair will produce St. Vincent through their Irish Dreamtime branch alongside Claudio Castravelli and Jon Turtle.

What do you think of Brosnan stepping in for Rourke? Think you’ll check out St. Vincent?

No official release date has been set for St Vincent but we’ll keep you posted as we hear more.

Source: Variety

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When is this movie going to be filmed? IMDb said it's supposed to start filming on July 12, and Pierce himself said on his website that he's heading back east to film the movie. So far, there's no news of this project on a go.