Bruce Willis in Unrelenting Action Film “THE PRINCE”
Bruce Willis leads a venerable group of veterans and
newcomers in “The Prince,” a non-stop action film that forces a retired crime
boss back into the seedy underworld he’d left behind. For twenty years Paul
Brennan (Patric), a retired New Orleans crime boss, has lived a quiet life off
the grid, running an auto repair garage in remote Mississippi. When his teenage
daughter Beth goes missing, Paul is forced to return to the city and face his
former enemies including Omar (Willis),
the city’s most powerful man whose family he mistakenly took out, in an
explosive final standoff that may offer redemption for Paul’s past mistakes.
Prolific producer, Randall Emmett
(“2 Guns,” “Escape Plan”) read the script and immediately knew it was a winner
in the vein of his previous action packed movies. “Bruce really fell for the
material, as well as Jason, and then John came on board and I felt that actors
of this caliber would bring something really special to the characters and to
the story of a man having to face his old demons when his daughter disappears
in the same crime universe that he used to live in.” says Emmett.
As each new bit of information
gets Paul closer to Beth, it also exposes him to Omar (Bruce Willis), “a very
powerful man in the city of New Orleans who put a price on Paul’s head the day
Paul mistakenly killed Omar’s wife and daughter,” explains director Brian Miller.
“Like Open Range or Unforgiven, this is a modern day western where this gun slinger’s
daughter goes missing in this city where he is a wanted man.”
“Bruce is an old school pro that
can just turn on the charm; I would whisper in his ear and wound him up a
little bit, and then just let him go,” recalls Miller, of the character that does
little to hide his thirst for vengeance. Omar, finely dressed with an air of
power about him, tightens his grip on the phone, as a car follows Paul’s
Explorer through an industrial part of town. The voice on the other end assures
Omar that everyone in the bar knew The Prince the second he walked in the door.
Director Brian A. Miller plants
the audience firmly in the gritty underworld of revenge seeking gangsters with
the action-thriller The Prince, which shot on locations throughout Mobile,
Alabama. “I have to say, the production value that we got from Mobile is quite
spectacular,” says Miller enthusiastically of the city that turned itself into
a back lot and doubled as New Orleans for a large portion of the shoot. Adds
producer Randall Emmett, “Brian fell in love with Mobile and thought it was
just ideal for The Prince. The city worked with us and the community really
embraced us, so it made our production really work.”
More
of Willis in action when “The Prince” opens on September 10 in cinemas nationwide
from Axinite Digicinema.
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