Ok, here's the script I want to read. I want to read RONIN. This project just sounds incredibly good. I'd love to see Frankenheimer back in his "Manchurian Candidate" form. (If you haven't seen that movie, get off your ass, leave work, find a copy, watch it, then play solitaire) The Red Queen sent in quite a rundown of the project, which sounds cool as hell. I know I'm dying to read it, see it, and laser disc it. Yeah. Of course I have been led astray before. I was real excited about Island of Dr Moreau, but... well. You know. Anyway, if you know anything or have a copy of the RONIN script let me know!!! and Here is the report from the Red Queen:
MGM has a cool project currently in production, called Ronin, I haven't seen much, if anything posted about the project, so I'll just tell you that it's in the tradition of the great thrillers of the past. John Frankenheimer is directing, it could be described as The Wild Bunch meets Rashomon meets Guns of Navarone meets The Manchurian Candidate. A very good script, with one of the stronger ensemble casts I've seen assembled for a film of this type, comparable to that of The Usual Suspects, but with a more international tone. Robert DeNiro, Jonathon Pryce, Sean Bean, Jean Reno and Stellan Skarsgard play former intelligence agents of different nationalities. It differs from most thrillers in that it's a psychological drama. When these men are forced into an impossible situation, they don't unite to overcome, like the A-Team, or Mission:Impossible, rather they begun to show what kind of morally bankrupt individuals they are. The theme is quite similar to Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, where a band of men no longer relevant in today's world, are pushed into a desperate situation with no real possibility for any resolution other than tragedy. The plot is complex, and it does jump around Europe.
