Agent 88

[@PLUGO]

Agent 88 is the story of the world’s deadliest assassin... an 88-year-old British woman on the verge of Alzheimers (not ERNIE REYES JR (http://youtu.be/rsW2xr_u89U)).

An eclectic ****tail of KILL BILL, CRANK and MR MAGOO, AGENT 88 is a dark action comedy that meshes wry wit with cutting-edge martial arts action, slick visual effects and the conviction that Agent 88 is extreme comic book style cinematic romp full of martial arts action, killer special effects and unforgettable characters.

Throughout recorded history spies, secret agents and assassins have engaged in subterfuge, violence and murder to shape the desired course of mankind for their masters. This deadly craft continues even today, and remarkably, one of its most lethal participants is not a member of the Yakuza, Massad, or the Colombian Drug Cartel, but an 88-year-old British woman currently living the quiet life in Los Angeles.

She may suffer from the occasional bout of forgetfulness, and hasn’t updated her wardrobe since the late 1970’s, but underestimate her at your own peril. Agent 88 may appear to be a decrepit old lady, but in reality she is a highly skilled warrior assassin.

There's a Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1460783231/agent-88-the-web-series)for it.

[doug maverick]

i have a friend who did second camera stuff on this film..looks very interesting.

[GeneChing]

Official website: http://www.agent88films.com


Nov 1 2012 02:09 PM ET
Meet Kay D'Arcy, the 79-year-old action hero who can kick your butt (http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/11/01/kay-darcy-agent-88/)
by Tara Fowler

You don’t know the name Kay D’Arcy. But you will. Like most aspiring actors, she moved to Hollywood over a decade ago and struggled for years to make it big. Over the protests of her family, D’Arcy kept at it and finally got her break with a Kickstarter project known as Agent 88. Now she’s on the brink of stardom. The catch? She’s 79 years old.

D’Arcy is the subject of a new profile in the Los Angeles Times chronicling her meteoric rise to fame as the octogenarian Jackie Chan. In the upcoming web series Agent 88, she plays an assassin who keeps her weapons in her hair and can deliver a mean roundhouse kick (seriously). It’s superb timing, really — as we reported back in September, there’s a female Expendables project in the works, and who better to lead it than D’Arcy? Here are the top three reasons she’s perfect for The Expendabelles:

1. She’s a martial arts expert: D’Arcy’s trained in tai chi and she studied Filipino stick fighting and hand-to-hand combat in preparation for her role in Agent 88. Her moves impressed the Agent 88 producers so much that she won the part without reading a single line of dialogue.

2. She can go from granny to assassin in three seconds flat: “Kay couldn’t think of harming a fly,” said Agent 88 creator Digger T. Mesch. However, it was a different story once she was on set. “She looked like a killer,” he revealed.

3. She’s been compared to Clint Eastwood: “I think when Dirty Harry himself is in his 80s, it’s good to have a grandma out there for Dirty Harry to play with,” DC Comics writer Jimmy Palmiotti said when pledging his support to the Kickstarter project. Sounds kinky.

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Kung fu granny! British former midwife makes Hollywood debut in martial arts movie at the age of 79 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2226846/Kung-fu-granny-British-midwife-makes-Hollywood-debut-martial-arts-movie-age-79.html)
By Lucy Waterlow
PUBLISHED: 07:28 EST, 2 November 2012 | UPDATED: 07:54 EST, 2 November 2012
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At an age when most people might be putting their feet up and enjoying their retirement, British grandmother Kay D'Arcy is proving it's never too late to pursue your dreams.

The 79-year-old former midwife has trained in tai chi and studied Filipino stick fighting in order to land a role in a martial arts show where she will play Agent 88 - 'the world's most deadly assassin'.

She takes the lead role in the Hollywood series which is described as 'an extreme comic book style cinematic romp, full of martial arts action, killer special effects and unforgettable characters.'

Her role is 'an 88-year-old British woman on the verge of Alzheimers' who 'may appear to be a decrepit old lady, but in reality she is a highly skilled warrior assassin'.

The web series, directed by Digger T Mesch has been made possible thanks to money being raised through Kickstarter, a fundraising platform to finance independent art forms including films and plays.

Producer Jan Utstein-O'Neill said D'Arcy 'blew us away' in her audition with her martial arts moves.

'What impressed us is she could go from being really frail, and looking like she could break, to a totally empowered woman,' he told the L.A Times.

D'Arcy's rise to fame is as remarkable as her kung fu abilities.

She was a retired midwife living in London, when ten years ago, at the age of 69 and against the advice of her family, she decided to up sticks and move to L.A. to pursue an acting career.

It's taken ten years for her to make her big break and she hopes her story empowers other people to make a change in their lives by proving you're never too old to enjoy life.

Speaking of her role in Agent 88, she said: 'This project is very special to me as it's showing a senior making the most of the last years of her life.

'She's not just a doddering woman in a nursing home, she's not being passed over and used by her family.

'She's empowered herself, and I suppose I did that when I left England and chose to start all over again. We all have the capacity to do that.'

D'Arcy added that she hopes her role in the martial arts film helps change people's attitudes towards the elderly and their capabilities.

She said: 'You all have old people, give them a dignity in their life, let them see there is something they can do towards the end of their lives.'

[TaichiMantis]

Gotta see this!:D