Details

Release year: 2007

Storyline

An expert marksman is framed for the assassination of the US President.

Top credits

Directors

Antoine Fuqua

Writers

Cast

Mark Wahlberg — Bob Lee Swagger
Michael Peña — Nick Memphis
Rhona Mitra — Alourdes Galindo
Danny Glover — Colonel Isaac Johnson

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Did you know

• According to the movie's script doctor William Goldman, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, and Harrison Ford passed on the movie. These men would have fit the literary Bob Lee Swagger's age a bit more closely than Mark Wahlberg (born in 1971). Author Stephen Hunter introduced Swagger as a Vietnam veteran in a 1993 novel, taking place in 1992; however, to accommodate Wahlberg's age, this film has Swagger active in Africa in the 1990s, instead of Vietnam in the 1970s.

• (at around 57 mins) The website to which Nick Memphis (Michael Peña) is given a link in the chat room, precisionremotes.com, is real. It is the website of Precision Remotes, a Richmond, California, company, which designs and manufactures remote-operated weapon and surveillance platforms, such as the one featured in the film.

• Mark Wahlberg had to lose twenty pounds, to give Bob Lee Swagger the slim and ripped look of a field sniper, to make the film more realistic.