Killing Season (film)

Killing Season previously titled Shrapnelcitation needed is a 2013 American action thriller film written by Evan Daugherty and directed by Mark Steven Johnson for Millennium Films, as the first onscreen pairing of actors John Travolta and Robert De Niro. The film pertains to a personal fight between an American and a Serb war veteran.

In Belgrade, Serbia, former Scorpions soldier Emil Kova Travolta meets his informant to retrieve a file on American military veteran and former NATO operative Colonel Benjamin Ford De Niro. Ford has fled to a cabin retreat somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, to forget the war. Now a recluse, he meets Kova, posing as a European tourist, during a hunting trip. The two men become friendly, until Kova reveals his true identity. Intent on revenge, he initiates a gory game of catandmouse with Ford. The latter is badly injured but is quick to rebound. After a showdown, Kova is overpowered by Ford. They reach a peaceful compromise, however, after understanding each others predicament. Kova quietly returns to Serbia, while Ford visits his son, to make up for missing his grandsons baptism.The project was originally set in the 1970s and titled Shrapnel. It was being considered by John Travolta and Nicolas Cage as a project to follow up on their film FaceOff and by director John McTiernan as a directing vehicle. Subsequently renamed and modified to take place in modern day Appalachia, and cofinanced and coproduced by Corsan, Nu Image and Millennium Films, filming began on January 16, 2012, in the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia. Major filming was scheduled for Tallulah Gorge State Park and Black Rock Mountain State Park. The locations in Rabun County were chosen by director Mark Steven Johnson to create the effect and mood he had previously seen in the film Deliverance. Other minor filming locations included Sofia, Bulgaria, Sweetwater Creek State Park, and the Pine Mountain Gold Museum in Stockmar Park, Villa Rica. International sales for Killing Season, offered by the American Film Market, commenced on November 2, 2011, in Santa Monica. American cellistsingersongwriter Ben Sollee contributed solo cello performances as well as an original song, Letting Go, for the end credits. ........

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