Acclaimed director Brian De Palma and Oscar winning actor Al Pacino are teaming up for
Retribution, a new thriller loosely based on Belgian director Erik Van Looy's film
The Memory of a Killer (2003). There is no preliminary release date for this upcoming film yet.
De Palma and Pacino previously collaborated on the iconic gangster films
Scarface and
Carlito's Way.
In the United States, Sony Pictures Classics released
The Memory of a Killer on DVD in 2006.
Synopsis: His memory impaired by Alzheimer's, veteran assassin Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir) is appalled to discover his intended target is a 12-year-old girl. Refusing to kill her, Ledda breaks his contract, only to have his boss carry out the hit instead. Incensed, Ledda vows vengeance and sets out to find the man who ordered the child's death. Systematically wiping out middlemen and go-betweens, Ledda leaves a blood trail that is followed by Chief Inspector Vincke (Koen Du Bouw), a police detective who's desperate to learn what links the dead girl to the most powerful men in Belgium. And so, with the cops one step behind him and his memory fading fast, Ledda finds himself in a race against time as he tries to avenge a child whose face he can no longer recall.