THE NOVEMBER MAN (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Pierce Brosnan (Goldeneye), Luke Bracey (G.I. Joe: Retaliation), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace), Eliza Taylor (Neighbours), Caterina Scorsone (Edge of Darkness), Bill Smitrovich (Ted), Will Patton (Armageddon), Amila Terzimehić (So Hot Was the Cannon), Lazar Ristovski (Casino Royale), Mediha Musliovic (Twice Born), Akie Kotabe (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit), Patrick Kennedy (War Horse), Dragan Marinković (Behind Enemy Lines), Ben Willens (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Roger Donaldson (The Bank Job), director; Michael Finch (Predators) and Karl Gajdusek (Oblivion), writers; Sriram Das (Veronika Decides To Die) and Beau St. Clair (The Thomas Crown Affair), producers; Marco Beltrami (The Wolverine), composer; Romain Lacourbas (Taken 2), cinematographer; John Gilbert (Bridge to Terabithia), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Peter Devereaux (Brosnan), a former CIA operative known to many as “The November Man”, is drafted back into the business to carry out a mission with which he has personal ties to, and finds himself rooted against protégé David Mason (Bracey) in an international battle between the CIA and the Russian government…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Pierce Brosnan returns to the spy-action genre, this time in an adaptation of author Bill Granger’s November Man book series, and it’s clear he’s right at home with the amount of action and suspense this film offers.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 2014

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