Cast: Robert Carlyle (Plunkett), Johnny Lee Miller (MacLeane), Liv Tyler (Lady Rebecca), Michael Gambon
Cast: Robert Carlyle (Plunkett), Johnny Lee Miller (MacLeane), Liv Tyler (Lady Rebecca), Michael Gambon
A Working Title film, for Polygram.
Producer: Rupert Harvey
Screenplay by: Peter Barnes, Selwyn Roberts, Rob Wade, Neal Purvis
Filmed in Prague & the United Kingdom, commencing on 12 September 1997.
To be released in 1998The Guardian (8 January 1998) tells us that by that date, Robert Carlyle had already completed work on Plunkett and MacLeane, which the paper describes as a comedy about two l8th-century highwaymen.
And from Scotland on Sunday, January 1998:
Already completed is another film Plunkett and MacLeane, an 18th century romp about a couple of highwaymen (" I swear a lot though" Carlyle says reassuringly).Variety (18 August 1997) describes the movie as "an eighteenth century Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with Carlyle and Lee Miller as highwaymen with hearts of gold." It also states that this is the directorial debut of Jake Scott, who is director Ridley Scott's son.
And a little more information, published 5/8/97:TV's Hamish Macbeth (Robert Carlyle) and fellow Trainspotter Johnny Lee Miller reunite to play a couple of infamous 18th century highwaymen. Archetypal nineties pin-up Liv Tyler is an aristocrat who falls for one of them. A romantic thriller, filming in the Czech Republic in September [1997]. It must be time for a Dick Turpin revival, surely...
Robert Carlyle appeared on Late Night with David Letterman to promote The Full Monty, and had to fly directly back to Prague for filming.
Different publications vary the spelling of 'MacLeane' - a common variant is 'Mclean'.
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