Red Mercury (film)
| Red Mercury | |
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| Directed by | Roy Battersby |
| Produced by | Peter Ansorge Meenu Bachan Vibha Bhatnagar Dr. Phil Blackburn Michael Wearing |
| Written by | Farrukh Dhondy |
| Starring |
Pete Postlethwaite Juliet Stevenson Ron Silver David Bradley |
| Music by | Colin Towns |
| Cinematography | Uday Tiwari |
| Edited by | Jeremy Gibbs |
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113 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £2,000,000 UK (est.) |
Red Mercury is a 2005 British film directed by Roy Battersby and starring , Pete Postlethwaite, Juliet Stevenson, Ron Silver and David Bradley.
The film is a thriller about a terrorist kidnapping. Three terrorist bomb-makers get a tipoff that their safehouse is about to be raided; flee on foot; kidnap hostages in an attempt to escape.
The film was written, produced and filmed over a four-month period.
The film was the first film aimed for a Western audience produced by a new film production company named Inspire, that planned to apply Bollywood film production methods to films made in the United Kingdom:
“The company was originally set up to do Bollywood films in London that could take advantage of Gordon Brown’s very generous tax breaks. It was Farrukh who persuaded them to start doing British movies. I suppose our analogy was the early Film on Four - a contemporary work which had a more extended life than a TV movie. And it grew from there.”
According to the producers the writer, Farrukh Dhondy, was interviewed by British counter-terrorism officials, to verify that the bomb-plot in the script was unrelated to their active investigations.
The film was sold at the 2005 Cannes Film Market. It did not have a theatrical release in the USA, being released to DVD in June 2007.
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