“Killer Elite”

"KILLER ELITE"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killer_Elite_%282011_film%29


There is also something disconcerting about the tagline being
“May the
Best Man Live” and then scrolling down to see the words
“Based on a True
Story”.



Sir Ranulph Fiennes'
novel, controversially claimed to have been based on actual events,
concerns a series of assassinations of members of the British Special Air Service
(SAS) by a hit squad called "The Clinic". The "Feather Men" of the
title is a group of vigilante special forces members who take on the hit
men to protect members of their regiment.^[5]



The film takes place in the early '80s. We see Danny (Jason Statham)
and Hunter (Robert De Niro) involved in a hit on a Mexican leader. Danny
kills the Mexican, but is spooked when he finds a child in the car with
him. He retires to Australia.



He receives a package with a plane ticket and a photo of Hunter being held hostage, and flies to Oman.
A sheik explains that 3 of his 4 sons have been killed by the SAS, and
he must see the killers dead so that his fourth son can take over. He is
offering $6 million to do the job.


Hunter took on the task, but ran
into problems. The sheik is old and dying, and says that he will kill
Hunter before he dies unless Danny completes the job. The job is
complicated by the condition that all kills must look like accidents or
natural deaths, and the SAS victims must confess to killing the sheik's
sons on camera.




Budget
$66 million^[2]–$70 million^[3]

Filming began at Docklands Studios Melbourne in May 2010.



In July 2010, Jason Statham's scenes were shot at the Brecon Beacons in Wales.^[6]



Robert De Niro filmed a scene in Melbourne's Spring Street set in 1970s Paris.^[7]



Some London scenes were filmed in Cardiff –

in July, De Niro and Statham were seen filming outside

The Promised Land Bar on Windsor Place.

The novel caused considerable controversy over the claim that it was based on real events. Publisher Bloomsbury
described it as a "true adventure" when it was published in 1991.
Fiennes claimed that the Feather Men had shown him detailed dossiers on
the assassins and their victims, and requested that he write an
"authorised" history of the group. A source in the Ministry of Defence told The Daily Telegraph:

<blockquote>
Many events Fiennes describes simply never took place. Frankly, it's
just another example of the Special Forces' reputation being exploited
for commercial gain.

</blockquote>
Fiennes himself remained vague on the story's veracity, asserting
that it was up to the reader to decide whether it was fact or fiction,
and suggested journalists subject events and people described in the
book to "forensic examination", and to draw their own conclusions.^[2]
Fiennes describes his novels as "factional", meaning a blend of fact
and fiction. The hardcover editions had the words "Fact or fiction?"
printed on the covers, and contained an index, maps and photographs as a
non-fiction book would. The paperback editions, however, presented the
book as purely fiction and omitted the index and illustrations.^[3]

However, there is a paperback edition of The Feather Men which
includes photographs of the victims and other real life characters, a
map (Oman in 1976) and other illustrations (e.g. a block diagram of the
modification of the BMW car brake system to incorporate remote radio
control) and an index and seems, by its back cover blurb, to claim the
book to be a factual account. It was published by Signet in 1992 - ISBN 0451174550

In June 2010, Alice Clarke, the daughter of SAS soldier Major Mike Kealy whose death is depicted in The Feather Men at the hands of The Clinic, spoke out, saying that her father had died during an endurance exercise in the Brecon Beacons in 1979. Describing Fiennes' claims as "disgraceful", she stated that her mother had confronted the author at the Hay Festival, and he had admitted to her that the story was a work of fiction.^[2]

[edit] Film


The film adaptation of the book is entitled Killer Elite. Filming took place in 2010 in Melbourne, Australia and South Wales, UK. The film was directed by Gary McKendry and starred Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Yvonne Strahovski and Dominic Purcell.^[4] It was released in September 2011.^[5]




Related:Jason Statham ,The Killer Elite

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