Gary Oldman feels the RAIN FALL

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Gary Oldman, whose career is predictable for doing the unpredictable (i.e, he's doing a horror/thriller for David Goyer which maybe you would say was a little beneath him, perhaps?) has joined the cast of the Japanese-set thriller Rain Fall.

The movie will be the second directorial effort for writer/director Max Mannix (Dance of the Dragon) and will shoot next month with only 15% English dialogue (presumably everything involving Oldman)...

Adapted from a novel by best- selling American author Barry Eisler, pic is story of a hit man who is forced to protect the daughter of one of his victims against assassination by the CIA. Shiina Kippei ("Shinobi") and Akiho Hasegawa star.

The film is being financed in part by Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan and is budgeted at over $7 million with the help of completion Bond, the first time a Japanese movie has used such a distinciton. Lord knows so many Japanese actors make the journey to the U.S. to star in Hollywood movies, I would like to see more actors from this part of the world make the journey over there more often. And really, who better than Oldman to fly the flag for us Brits? source - variety