INSIDE THE AMERICAN

Anton Corbijn s new feature film is a suspense thriller titled TheAmerican, starring George Clooney. Its world-wide release is scheduled forfall 2010. Based on Martin Booth s 1992 novel A Very Private Gentleman, themovie is set in Sweden and in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The protagonistis a gunsmith and sometime hitman who tries to change his life, only tofind out the hard way that you can t undo the past. Not one to give up onhis old life, director-cumphotographer Anton Corbijn daily took hisstillcamera to the set, and this book is the proof of that. Filled withcandid on- and off set photographs accompanied by Corbijn s diary stylewriting, it provides a unique insight into the making of The American.