The Tournament is an action film starring
Robert Carlyle as
Catholic priest Father Joseph Macavoy,
Ving Rhames,
Kelly Hu,
Sebastien Foucan,
Liam Cunningham and
Ian Somerhalder. The film is directed by first-timer
Scott Mann in
Bulgaria and
Tyneside in the
UK. It was released on October 20, 2009.The film was created by Jonathan Frank and Nick Rowntree while at the
University of Teesside, and is directed by
Scott Mann of
Newton Aycliffe.
Premise
Every Seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale among 30 of the world’s deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No 1 (which itself carries the legendary million-dollar-a-bullet price tag). The Tournament is set up by a group of sick high-stake billionaires who watch the mayhem unfold via CCTV and bet on its outcome.
Each of the assassins carry a tracking device, embedded under their skin, allowing the observers to monitor the Tournaments movements and the assassins to track each other.The tournament lasts twenty-four hours, and if no assassin has won then the tracking device under their skin will explode. When the French man removes his tracker and throws it into a coffee pot, a local priest (
Robert Carlyle) who inadvertently swallows it is caught in the crossfire.
