Wild Target
Filmmaker: Lucinda Coxon (Screenwriter)
UK/France / 2010 / 98 mins / English
Opening Weekend Date: 18 June 2010
Cinemas screening the film: Nationwide
Wild Target a new British comedy about an uptight hit man, starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint and Rupert Everett.
Bill Nighy is Victor Maynard, a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable Mother (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 in the process a young apprentice, 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).
Lucinda Coxon
Lucinda Coxon (Screenwriter) is a celebrated playwright, whose recent production Happy Now?, premiered at the National Theatre in January, won her the 2008 Best Play Award from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Born in Derby, she has had her work performed by leading theatre companies in London and Britain's regional theatres, in New York and California. Her original plays include Nostalgia, Vesuvius, Improbabilities, Wishbones, Waiting at the Water's Edge and Three Graces. Her adaptations include The Shoemaker's Incredible Wife, from Federico García Lorca and The Ice Palace, from the novel by Norwegian Tarjei Vesaas - both for the National Theatre Connections scheme. She co-wrote the screenplay for Valerio Jalongo's coming-of-age drama Messaggi Quasi Segreti, but it was her first produced script for her longtime friend Martin Pope, an adaptation of Rosamond Lehman's The Echoing Grove, which brought her work to the attention of film critics. The Heart of Me is a study of love, passion and repression in London society in the 1930s, following two beautiful sisters as they each embark on a life-changing relationship with the same man. Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams and Paul Bettany, it was a winner at both the British Independent Film Awards and the Evening Standard British Film Awards. A 2009 start has been announced for her screen adaptation of David Ebershoff's novel The Danish Girl, to star Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron.