Summit To Release RED On October 22nd, 2010

Real quick now, via Variety, Summit Entertainment has announced the release date of RED, based on the Wildstorm/DC Comics book series published in 2003 and 2004, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner. This action/thriller will be directed by Robert Schwentke (Flight­plan) and produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradia. This movie opens on October 22nd, 2010, same weekend as SAW VII..

RED stars Bruce Willis as the star along with Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John C. Reilly, Mary Louise Parker

Here’s the official synopsis of the graphic novel.. “Paul Moses is a man with too much blood on his hands. For years, masquerading as a low-level clerk, he has travelled the world as a CIA agent, coldly and mercilessly killing Americażs enemies. Now, Moses is old, retired, and wants nothing more than to grow oldand die in peace. But when a new, politically-appointed CIA director discovers Mosesż existence and history, he gives the order for Mosesż death, setting a chain of events in motion that nobody could have predicted…

Willis would portray Moses who has gone into retirement but is forced back into action when a high-tech assassin comes a-callin’ to threaten him and his girlfriend. He must fight a hit team sent by the new leader of the CIA (Freeman) who wants to clean up loose ends i.e. former agents like Moses who know too much. Mirren plays an old associate with a lethal set of skills. Reilly is set to play “a retired CIA agent who is paranoid that everyone is out to kill him” and Parker would play Willis’ “romantic interest, a federal pension worker who becomes embroiled in Moses’s struggle to stay alive.”

Julian McMahon (TV’s Nip/Tuck, Fantastic Four) will play a Vice President with a dark side who is at the center of a shadow conspiracy. Richard Dreyfuss will play a wealthy man who builds a fortune out of lucrative government contracts. Brian Cox will play a former a former Cold War spy and Willis’ nemesis. The legendary Ernest Borgnine (From Here To Eternity) will play the keeper of the CIA’s darkest records