Released by Miramax
ETA: Unknown

Have you got or found a scoop on Killshot? Email us now!

Latest updates

Tuesday 20th September 2005: Movie News: Killshot: Item Posted by: Gary Gray: Rosario Dawson has been signed up to star in Killshot alongside Johnny Knoxville, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke and Thomas Jane in Killshot. The movie is being directed by John Madden and will follows a couple who flee to the witness protection program, with a gangster in pursuit. Dawson will play the girlfriend of the gangster's dangerous sidekick, a role that went to Gordon-Levitt. Knoxville will portray the FBI agent trying to keep the couple alive.

Friday 27th August 2005: Movie News: Killshot: Item Posted by: Gary Gray: Thomas Janes (The Punisher) has joined Diane Lane and Mickey Rourke in John Madden's upcoming big-screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot, says Production Weekly. In the thriller, a woman and her blue-collar husband become the targets of two killers after they stumble on an extortion plot hatched by the bad guys. Carmen (Lane) saw the scam and now she and Wayne (Jane), her ironworker husband, have to pay. Blackbird (Rourke) kills smart and deadly. Richie kills stupid and crazy. Both are out to erase any living evidence--and when these lethal partners take up the chase, a safe place from killing is awfully hard to find. Filming on the Weinstein Co. project will start on October 11th in Toronto.

Thursday 12th May 2005: Movie News: Killshot: Item Posted by: Loretta Francis: Viggo Mortensen, Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, and Justin Timberlake are being rumored as the main cast for John Madden's big-screen adaptation of scribe Elmore Leonard's "Killshot." The thriller focuses a woman and her blue-collar husband who become targets for killers after stumbling upon an extortion plot hatched by criminals. The film is a WeinsteinCo. roll out in which Disney has a stake. It will be released under the branded Quentin Tarantino Presents label.

Monday 24th January 2005: Killshot:
Shakespeare in Love director John Madden is to adapt the novel Killshot by Elmore Leonard. The story is a thriller in which a woman and her blue-collar husband become the targets of two killers after they stumble on an extortion plot hatched by the bad guys.

3/6/01
Page created
What I know about this project. Last week, Aint It Cool ran an article that stated that John Frankenheimer is to helm the movie. Now Quentin Tarantino owns the rights to the Elmore Leonard book, but a guy named Steve Barancik has turned in a screenplay that Miramax love. So what is Tarantino's involvement going to be. Well, i've heard that he will produce the movie alongside Lawrence Bender with his company A Band Apart, although I suspect he will end up with an executive producer title.

Casting is still unknown and as stated above, both Robert De Niro and Tarantino have been attached, but nothing confirmed. Now, i've read Leonard's book and there are four main characters. The first named Blackbird is an old Cherokee-Indian hitman that I always envisioned somebody like Charles Bronson or a bald Burt Reynolds to play. But i'd personally like to see Harvey Keitel in the role. Then there's his young, hot-headed partner, Richie Knix who I assume Tarantino would play, which, could work. The other two roles are of a husband and wife, which to be honest, there are a million different people that could work in the roles, although the female needs to have a slightly harder edge to her. Someone like Uma Thurman, Michelle Rodriguez, Sharon Stone or even Cameron Diaz.

Still, it's a great book and it was one of the first Leonard novels that I read. It's what got me into liking the author, so grab a copy if you can.The film looks like it will go into production soon.

This page has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film and intellectual copyright holders of Killshot & hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise & storyline.