UK: MORGAN FREEMAN, JET LI AND BOB HOSKINS TALK ON SET ABOUT THEIR CURRENT FILM "DANNY THE DOG" SET IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

Record ID: 387487

  • Title: UK: MORGAN FREEMAN, JET LI AND BOB HOSKINS TALK ON SET ABOUT THEIR CURRENT FILM "DANNY THE DOG" SET IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
  • Date: 16th April 2003
  • Summary: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND UNITED KINGDOM (RECENT) (REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) VARIOUS: OF IMAGES OF A FIGHT SCENE PLAYED OUT IN A GROCERS STORE FROM THE SET OF THE FILM 'DANNY THE DOG'. (3 SHOTS) SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) ACTOR MORGAN FREEMAN SAYING: "I play a piano tuner, I have a step-daughter who is a student, concert pianist and we're here in Glasgow so she can attend a conservatory
  • Embargoed: 1st May 2003 13:00
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  • Location: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UK
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA26IH8ZB8CQDN1XOXCMM913QRS
  • Story Text: Morgan Freeman, Jet Li and Bob Hoskins all star in Luc Besson's latest big-budget action thriller, 'Danny the Dog'.
    Reuters TV caught up with the film's stars on set in Glasgow.
    Acclaimed French director / producer, Luc Besson, has begun production on 'Danny the Dog' in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
    This action thriller is based around a five year old boy, Danny, who is kidnapped from his mother by a notorious loan shark, Bart, and raised as a dog.
    All grown up Danny escapes from his ruthless handler only to find himself lost and alone in a world he does not know or understand.
    Hollywood veteran, Morgan Freeman, plays Sam, a blind piano tuner who finds and then befriends Danny, taking him into his house, healing his wounds and begins the process, along with his 20 year old stepdaughter Victoria, of rehabilitating Danny. "He's an innocent. And it's a sort of an amazing thing for people to run into that kind of an innocence, because he's a stone killer; it's like a pitbull, a pitbull doesn't know anything about what it's doing, it's just doing what it was trained to do, and he's like that. He isn't trained, none of his human qualities have been developed so when he's with us, these qualities are brought to the fore more and more. Until finally there's the inevitable war within himself."
    Having played in more than 30 action films Jet Li explains what attracted him to the role of Danny, "This is totally different. All the time I play the master, the hero, the one save the day. But this is first movie I need to be saved by somebody."
    Bob Hoskins better known for his roles in the 'Mona Lisa' and 'Who Killed Roger Rabbit', takes on the role of the psychopathic kidnapper Bart, responsible for imprisoning and training Danny like a animal.
    "I don't know really, I read the script and couldn't figure it out at all, and thought it must be good, (LAUGHS) this must be wonderful. So I asked my wife would you read that and tell me what it's about, I think she got through the first three pages and was like no, no, but I think you ought to do it though, oh right...."
    Relatively unknown, Louis Leterrier makes his directional debut with Besson taking credits for writing and producing.
    'Danny the Dog' will be released in France 2004 by Europa, which will also be handling worldwide sales.
    Besson founded Europa three years ago with Pierre-Ange Le Pogam.
    Together, they have turned it into one of France's leading independent studios that produces six to eight features a year.
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