“THE PRINCE” Faces Old Enemies For Taken Daughter
Director Brian A. Miller dives
headlong into the gritty underworld of territorial gangsters and revenge in the
action-thriller, “The Prince.” Paul
Brennan (Jason Patric) is a former mob enforcer with two decades between him
and an awful mistake that took the lives of Omar (Bruce Willis), a very
powerful man’s family.
“When Paul’s daughter goes missing
in the city where he is a wanted man, he has to go back into this past,” begins
Miller. “Bit by bit, as we pull that string, it leads us to all these new
dimensions, back into the sins of his past life as he seeks redemption for the
mistakes he had made. It’s a genre story turned upside down on its head, and
that really attracted me to the script.”
“When Angela (Jessica Lowndes) first
meets Paul he is just Beth’s (Gia Mantegna) dad, this mechanic from
Mississippi; I don’t really know what I got myself into,” begins Lowndes, whose
character comes off as the quintessential party girl, always chasing the next
high. “Paul offers up this road trip to New Orleans to find his daughter and
Angela thinks why not, let’s go party and have fun. But it turns out we have
people chasing us and he is this bad ass and he’s killing people.”
John
Cusack plays Sam, an old friend or associate of Paul’s. When he comes back to town and gets into
trouble he asks Sam for a favor because of their prior association,” begins
Cusack, whose character is reminiscent of Rick in Casablanca. “It’s a troubled
relationship because of Paul’s past.” Paul and Angela make their way through
the luxurious lobby of the Sam’s Goldmine Casino and Hotel. In the presidential
suite, Paul explains that his daughter has gotten herself in with a bad crowd
and someone called The Pharmacy. Sam knows the lunatic and can’t get involved,
much less even be seen with Paul, who understands and explains he just needs a
safe place for Angela. As Paul leaves, Sam warns that a lot of their guys are
now with Omar.
Miller
shot the fillm 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.”
“The
Prince” opens September 10 in theatres nationwide from Axinite Digicinema.
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