RED (2010)
- The incredible score for RED was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- The original script for RED was written over a decade before production finally began in 2010.
- During the filming of RED, Bruce Willis improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
RED is a 2010 American action comedy directed by Robert Schwentke, based on the DC Comics limited series by Warren Ellis. Bruce Willis stars as Frank Moses, a retired CIA black ops agent living a mundane suburban existence, whose peaceful retirement is shattered when a hit squad shows up at his home. Forced to reassemble his old team โ including Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich as a paranoid conspiracy theorist, and Helen Mirren as an elegant assassin โ Frank must uncover who wants them dead and why.
The film's primary pleasure was watching respected, award-winning actors joyfully embrace action-comedy mayhem โ Helen Mirren firing a machine gun in an evening dress became the film's signature image. John Malkovich's hilariously paranoid Marvin, who was fed LSD daily for eleven years as a CIA experiment, was a comedic highlight. RED earned $199 million worldwide on a $58 million budget.
The film was praised for its entertaining execution of its genre formula.
