Interview: Director Robert Lorenz Talks The Marksman
Just in time for
The Marksman’s digital release, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with director Robert Lorenz, who discussed the Liam Neeson action drama and took a moment to reflect back on the Academy Award-winning film
Million Dollar Baby for which he served as producer and first assistant director.
The official logline for
The Marksman reads as follows:
“Hardened Arizona rancher Jim Hanson (Liam Neeson) simply wants to be left alone as he fends off eviction notices and tries to make a living on an isolated stretch of borderland. But everything changes when Hanson, an ex-Marine sharpshooter, witnesses 11-year-old migrant Miguel (Jacob Perez) fleeing with his mother Rosa (Teresa Ruiz) from drug cartel assassins led by the ruthless Mauricio (Juan Pablo Raba). After being caught in a shoot-out, a dying Rosa begs Jim to take her son to safety to her family in Chicago. Defying his cop daughter Sarah (Katheryn W
"When we set out to write this many years ago, we had no idea it would go on to overtake "Wonder Woman 1984" at the box office," says Chris Charles of Sun Prairie, who wrote the script with screenwriting partner Danny Kravitz, a UW-Madison alum.
January 14, 2021 01:07 PM The Marksman, a Liam Neeson thriller shot partly in NE Ohio, was a homecoming for one of its writers
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An image of Liam Neeson and Jacob Perez in The Marksman, a thriller that was filmed partly in Northeast Ohio and opens in theaters on Friday, Jan. 15.
Even when you ve reached a point in your career that you ve written a Hollywood thriller starring Liam Neeson, it s comforting to have your mom pack lunches for when you go to work.
So it was for Danny Kravitz, a Pepper Pike native, Orange High School graduate and co-writer of The Marksman, a movie filmed partly in Northeast Ohio that opens in theaters on Friday, Jan. 15.