Overview
- The film had its Out of Competition world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday with Al Pacino absent and sending a pre-recorded video message to the cast and crew.
- Kiefer Sutherland stars as Father Joe, a gunslinging priest in 1990s Little Italy, with Al Pacino playing a powerful mob boss and Ever Anderson in a prominent supporting role.
- Luc Besson wrote and produced the picture while Barthélémy Grossmann makes his English-language feature directing debut and Kiefer Sutherland is also a producer.
- Early reviews described the movie as pulpy and sometimes entertaining but criticized its uneven tone, scattershot plotting and low-rent production values.
- Sales agents Kinology and CAA are handling the title and the Venice screening is serving as the film's launch point for distribution talks and theatrical planning.