J.P. Schaefer about the 1980 murder of former Beatle John Lennon by a delusional Christian fan (Jared Leto) September Dawn – 2007 film by Christopher Cain, about the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre of settlers by Mormons, includes the 1844 death of Joseph Smith (Dean Cain), founder of the Latter Day Saint movement A Mighty Heart – 2007 film by Michael Winterbottom about the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) by Islamist terrorists in 2002 The Warlords – 2007 Chinese (Mandarin) film by Peter Chan about the assassination of a Qing general (Jet Li), based on the death of Ma Xinyi in 1870 13 Roses – 2007 Spanish film by Emilio Martínez Lázaro about the fate of 13 young women when rumours of an assassination plot against Generalissimo Franco circulate after the Fall of Madrid in 1939 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – 2007 film by Andrew Dominik about the murder of outlaw Jesse James (Brad Pitt) by his friend Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) in 1882, and then Ford's own assassination in 1892 The Hunting Party – 2007 film by Richard Shepard in which journalists (Richard Gere, Terrence Howard) in Bosnia attempting to contact a Serb war criminal are mistaken for CIA assassins, inspired by actual events centred on Radovan Karadžić Goodbye Bafana (a.k.a. The Color of Freedom) – 2007 film by Bille August, about Nelson Mandela's prison guard (Joseph Fiennes), includes speculation about the car crash death of Mandela's son, Thembi, in 1969 Lust, Caution – 2007 film by Ang Lee where, during the Sino-Japanese War, a group of Hong Kong students plot to kill a visiting official (Tony Leung) of the collaborationist Wang Jingwei government Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (a.k.a. Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler) – 2007 German satire by Dani Levy in which Adolf Hitler (Helge Schneider) avoids assassination by his Jewish drama teacher (Ulrich Mühe) Shooter – 2007 film by Antoine Fuqua about a recluse (Mark Wahlberg) set up to be the lone gunman in an apparent assassination attempt on the U.S. president Hitman – 2007 film by Xavier Gens based on the popular video game franchise of the same name, in the movie a genetically engineered assassin known only as "Agent 47" (Timothy Olyphant) who targets the Russian President 2008–2009 Il Divo – 2008 Italian film by Paolo Sorrentino about