Wild Target

Wild Target is a 2010 black comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn and starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Eileen Atkins, Martin Freeman, and Rupert Everett. It is based on the 1993 French film. Lucinda Coxon wrote the screenplay, and it was produced by Martin Pope and Michael Rose. Production began shooting in London on 16 September 2008. Filming also took place on the Isle of Man. Plot Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy) is a reclusive hit-man perpetuating a family line of professional assassins. His father, a well-known assassin, is deceased, but he operates under the constant watchful gaze of his domineering mother, Louisa (Eileen Atkins), who wants him to preserve the family reputation. Rose (Emily Blunt) is an ingenious con artist, who manages to sell a fake Rembrandt, painted by her friend in the Restoration Department of the National Gallery, to Ferguson (Rupert Everett), a billionaire, for £900,000. Ferguson responds by hiring Victor to assassinate her. Victor takes the contract, but misses several opportunities to kill her, finally giving up the attempt entirely as he falls in love with his intended victim.