Charlie Swift (Pierce Brosnan) is a former Marine turned crime syndicate fixer in Biloxi, Mississippi, who sticks together even in the face of his aging boss Stan Mullen's (James Caan) declining mental faculties. After a hit on a low-level criminal named Rollo on behalf of New Orleans crime boss Beggar (Gbenga Akinnagbe), Beggar soon stages an attack that leaves most of the Biloxi crew dead. Charlie teams up with Rollo's ex, Marcie (Morenca Baccarin), to find some evidence about Beggar that she had hidden in order to take down Beggar and avenge his crew. Fast Charlie is an adaptation of the 2001 crime novel Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler. Attempts to adapt the novel to film had been made as early as 2009 when director Ryuhei Kitamura was slated to direct from a script by Lee Goldberg, but it fell into development hell until producer Dan Grodnik acquired the project and resurrected it. as a directorial vehicle for Phillip Noyce with Richard Wenk of the Denzel Washington Equalize...
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