Circa January 2013 , French action director Pierre Morel ( '' Taken '' ) entered negotiations to direct Sean Penn in '' Prone Gunman '' , an action thriller being produced by Silver Pictures ’ Joel Silver and Andrew Rona . The film is based on the 1981 novel '' The Prone Gunman '' by French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette . The project , from Silver Pictures , was fully financed by StudioCanal , who sold out rights to the film at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
2013 Cannes Film Festival
2013 Cannes Film Festival
The Gunman (film)