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Assassins is a 1995 action film written by the Wachowski brothers and Brian Helgeland, directed by Richard Donner, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas and Julianne Moore.

Plot details

Robert Rath (Stallone) is a paid assassin who wants nothing more than to get out of 'the business'. On an assignment to kill someone, someone else gets to the 'mark' (the target) before him. That person is Miguel Bain (Banderas), a fellow assassin. Rath then has the trouble of trying to figure out who sent Bain, while at the same time being offered a job that could financially allow him to retire - killing a computer hacker named Electra (Moore) and retreiving a disk that contains sensitive information. The problem is that Bain is assigned to kill Electra as well. When Rath finally confronts Electra, his conscience gets the better of him and he decides to let her live, but at the same time having to fight off Bain, who wants to kill both her and him. Now having become a 'mark' himself, he must try and extract enough money out of his backer so he can disappear for good, while avoiding Bain.

Trivia

The original spec screenplay was written by Larry and Andy Wachowski and sold for a million dollars to producer Joel Silver around the same time he bought their script for The Matrix
, also for a million dollars. The script was similar to the final product, but with a more developed love story between Rath and Electra and a briefer ending without the character of Nikolai. Joel Silver offered Richard Donner
$10 million to direct, but Donner insisted the script was rewritten to tone down the violence and make the central character more sympathetic and brought in Brian Helgeland, who did a page-one rewrite and earned a co-screenwriter credit. The Wachowskis attempted to remove their name from the film but were refused by the Writers Guild of America . Later, after watching Bound
, Joel Silver apologized to the brothers over Assassins and offered them the chance to direct their script The Matrix
.
A few years after the release, Richard Donner
admitted that if he had to make the film again, he would've stuck closer to the Wachowski's original script and swapped the main leads, so that Stallone would be the reckless killer and Banderas would star as the experienced pro.
Electra's cat, Pearl, is a Maine Coon.
Sean Connery
, Michael Douglas
and Arnold Schwarzenegger
were all considered for the part of Robert Rath. Christian Slater
and Tom Cruise
were offered the part of Miguel Bain.
Part of the film was shot in Puerto Rico. The movie featured several local actors, such as Axel Anderson
and Juan Manuel Lebron
playing bit parts.
The Banco de Puerto Rico building featured in the movie is actually a historic casino which was previously featured in the film La Gran Fiesta.
The movie features a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) procession crossing the streets of San Juan. This procession is mainly a Mexican tradition and is not celebrated in Puerto Rico.
Birra is the slang term in Spanish for beer.

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