We’ve just received word from Richwater Films that production has officially kicked off on their new British thriller ASSASSIN, which stars Danny Dyer, Martin Kemp and brother Gary. It is the first time the Kemp brothers have united on screen since the superb 1990 cult crime flick THE KRAYS. JK Amalou directs from his own script with Jonathan Sothcott (ELFIE HOPKINS and the upcoming VENDETTA) producing.
In addition it is announced today that Anouska Mond (iLL MANORS), Holly Weston (JOHN CARTER), Eddie Webber (THE FIRM), Robert Cavanah (FALL OF THE ESSEX BOYS) and Deborah Moore (DIE ANOTHER DAY) have joined the cast. Mond and Weston are pictured below.
“I think JK and I have put together a really cool cast,” says producer Sothcott, “I have had my eye on Anouska Mond for some time, I think she’s really got something about her.” Amalou adds: “We searched long and hard looking for our leading lady but as soon as I met Holly Weston I knew she had what it took to play the complex part of Chloe. The female characters play a bigger part in our story than is usual in films of this type and I really feel we have nailed the casting.”
The movie, which will be distributed in the UK and Australia by Anchor Bay, will be filmed on location in London, Sussex and Surrey. “I want to show a side to London that isn’t just Soho and Canary Wharf,” says JK Amalou, “…really make the city into a character. But I also want to get out of London, life extends beyond the City.”
ASSASSIN tells the story of Jamie (Dyer), a professional hitman hired to kill corrupt politician Tony Boyd (Cavanah) by mobsters John and Lee Alberts (Gary and Martin Kemp). The night of the hit he meets Chloe (Weston) and begins an affair with her, only to discover that she is Boyd’s estranged daughter. Spurred on by her friend Alex (Mond), Chloe begins to think that Boyd’s death was not the accident it appears and when she begins digging, the Alberts hire Jamie to kill her too. As his world collapses around him, Jamie has to chose between survival and the girl he loves in an action-packed climax that can only end one way – death.
ASSASSIN is a Richwater Films/Silver Leaf Productions co-production.
Source: Richwater Films
