The Assignment (2016 film)
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| Directed by | Walter Hill |
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| Music by | Ry Cooder |
| Cinematography | James Liston |
| Edited by | Phill Norden |
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| Distributed by | Saban Films |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Assignment, also known in production as Tomboy, (re)Assignment or Tomboy, a Revenger's Tale is an American crime-thriller film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Denis Hamill. The film stars Michelle Rodriguez, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Caitlin Gerard and Sigourney Weaver.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2016, before being released through video on demand on March 3, 2017, prior to a limited release on April 7, 2017, by Saban Films.
Dr. Rachel Jane (Sigourney Weaver) is a rogue doctor with a weird vision of a better world after losing her brother to a contract killer Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez). In an experiment to assess how much physical identity matters, Kay performs a sex-change operation on Kitchen to have him start over.
When Kitchen finds out the operation cannot be reversed, he kills almost everyone involved in the sex change and cuts the fingers off Dr. Jane, so she will not practice again.
In 1978 Denis Hamil wrote the first draft of a script called Tom Boy. It was about a juvenile delinquent who rapes and murders a woman whose husband is a plastic surgeon. He's arrested and goes to prison, but the surgeon captures him and turns him into a woman. The character goes on to commit a series of murders. Walter Hill recalls, "I liked its audacity, and its potential to be … this always sounds patronizing, but a kind of really terrific B movie. You know, the kind of movie that doesn't get much love when it comes out, but you love watching it on TV years later, much more than you do the 'big' movies of the day."
Hill optioned the script with his own money around ten years after he first read it. He tried to write a different version but could not get it to work. He put the project aside until he found a copy of the first draft fifteen years later. He believed he knew how to do it this time and re-optioned the script.
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