Wild Target

Director: Jonathan Lynn
Cast: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Eileen Atkins, Rupert Everett
Release Date: 2009 (Rumored March '09)

Synopsis:

Wild Target is a comedy about uptight Victor Maynard (Nighy), a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother Louisa (Eileen Atkins), despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose (Emily Blunt).

He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring a young apprentice in the process, Tony (Rupert Grint). Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client (Rupert Everett).

(Based off of the 1993 French film "Cible Emouvante")

Synopsis courtesy of Iomtoday.co.im

Press Articles & Interviews

Bill Nighy Is A Wild Target: Playing a hitman on the run in Brit-com (16 Sep)
Bill Nighy's renowned hitman, Victor Maynard, finds himself reluctantly saddled with two sidekicks - Emily Blunt, as a target he didn't have the heart to kill, and Rupert Grint as a young man who chooses Victor as his mentor, in the mistaken belief that he's a private detective.

Celeb-spotting alert as filming begins on Wild Target (17 Sep)
IT'S time to get the celeb-spotting goggles on again as stars head to the Isle of Man to begin filming new British comedy Wild Target. Isle of Man regular Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean, Notes on a Scandal) will join Rupert Grint (Harry Potter), Rupert Everett (St Trinian's, My Best Friend's Wedding) and Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) as cameras begin rolling next month.