Project Detail

The Foreigner

Name: The Foreigner
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: Action
Released: 2017

Synopsis

Quan, an ex-Viet Cong fighter, has escaped to the United Kingdom with his daughter and become the proud owner of the Double Happiness Chinese Takeaway. He has quietly started settling into middle age - until a resurgent IRA bomb rips through a Knightsbridge store, killing his daughter instantly. Heartbroken, Quan asks the authorities for justice. But when the authorities fob him off, Quan decides to take matters into his own hands, and travels to Ireland to extract revenge.
However, the bombings are the work of an unsanctioned IRA unit, operating against the wishes of the now-retired IRA old guard, or at least, most of them. Determined to find out who is behind the bombings, one of the ex-IRA leaders, Liam Hennessy, sets a trap for the splinter unit. Amidst the politics, lies and double-crosses, Quan and Hennessy find themselves fighting against each other, but with the same aim: to bring the bombers to justice.
Adaptation of Stephen Leather's best-selling novel 'The Chinaman'.

Details

Year: 2017
Type of project: Features
Director: Martin Campbell
Producer: Wayne Marc Godfrey, Claire Kupchak, D. Scott Lumpkin, Jamie Marshall, Arthur M. Sarkissian
Co-Producer: Andrew Warren
Executive Producer: David Marconi
Editor: Angela M. Catanzaro
Screenwriter: David Marconi (screenplay), Stephen Leather novel)
Director of Photography: David Tattersall
Production Designer: Alex Cameron
Composer: Cliff Martinez
Principal cast: Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Charlie Murphy, Katie Leung

Genre

Action

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

UK, China coproduction

The Fyzz Facility (UK), SR Media (CN)

The Fyzz Facility

77 Fortress Road
London
NW5 1AG

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