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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Jessica Brooks, Jacqueline Defferary, Stockard Channing, Alex Caan, Juliet Stevenson, Ron Silver, David Bradley, Daniel Hill, Navin Chowdhry, Pete Postlethwaite, Shiv Grewal

Categories: Movies, Action/Adventure, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Political Thriller, Action

Red Mercury is a 2005 United Kingdom film starring Stockard Channing, Pete Postlethwaite, Juliet Stevenson, Ron Silver and David Bradley, and directed by Roy Battersby. 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... MORE

Red Mercury is a 2005 United Kingdom film starring Stockard Channing, Pete Postlethwaite, Juliet Stevenson, Ron Silver and David Bradley, and directed by Roy Battersby. 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 LESS