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Domino is a 2005 Action film inspired by the story of Domino Harvey, the English daughter of stage and screen actor Laurence Harvey, who became a bounty hunter working in Los Angeles. The film is dedicated to Domino Harvey, who died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl on June 27, 2005, before the film was released. Anthony D. L. Tony Scott (born July 21, 1944) is a British film director. ... Born Morocco, 17 December 1953. ... Anthony D. L. Tony Scott (born July 21, 1944) is a British film director. ... Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975) is an American film director and writer, best known for 2001s Donnie Darko. ... Keira Christina Knightley (pronounced IPA: ;[1] born 26 March 1985) is an English[2] film and television actress. ... Keira Christina Knightley (pronounced IPA: ;[1] born 26 March 1985) is an English[2] film and television actress. ... Mickey Rourke (born September 16, 1956) is an American actor who has primarily appeared in drama, action, and thriller films. ... Edgar Ramirez (born March 25, 1977) is a Venezuelan actor. ... Lucy Alexis Liu (Chinese: åŠ‰çŽ‰çŽ² LiÃº YÃ¹lÃng, born December 2, 1968 in Queens, New York) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress. ... Jacqueline Bisset (born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset on 13 September 1944) is an English actress. ... Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British actor. ... Harry Gregson-Williams (born December 13, 1961) is a Grammy-nominated British film score composer. ... New Line redirects here. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... American cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Domino Harvey (b. ... Laurence Harvey (October 1, 1928 â€“ November 25, 1973) was an Academy Award-nominated Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films. ... For other uses, see Bounty hunter (disambiguation). ... Fentanyl is an opioid analgesic, first synthesized by Janssen Pharmaceutica (Belgium) in the late 1950s, with a potency many times that of morphine. ... is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The film stars Keira Knightley as Domino. Tony Scott directed the film and the screenplay was written by Richard Kelly. Kelly commented that "...Domino might be one of the most subversive films released by a major studio since Fight Club".^[1] Keira Christina Knightley (pronounced IPA: ;[1] born 26 March 1985) is an English[2] film and television actress. ... Anthony D. L. Tony Scott (born July 21, 1944) is a British film director. ... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ... Sample from a screenplay, showing dialogue and action descriptions. ... Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975) is an American film director and writer, best known for 2001s Donnie Darko. ...

Plot

Domino Harvey, a bounty hunter, has been arrested by the FBI, who are investigating the theft of $10 million from an armored truck, which happened 36 hours previously. Domino is interviewed by criminal psychologist Taryn Mills and agrees to tell her everything she knows about the case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

Domino, a former model living in Los Angeles, becomes a bounty hunter after seeing an advert in a newspaper. Her colleagues are Ed Moseby, Choco and their driver Alf. They are employed by Claremont Williams III, a bail bondsman who also runs an armored car business.

Claremont's mistress, Lateesha Rodriguez, works for the Los Angeles Department of Motor Vehicles. Lateesha has been running a counterfeit drivers licence racket. A teenager named Frances arrives at the DMV and asks Lateesha for fake drivers licences for himself, his brother, and two of their friends. Image File history File links A screenshot of Edgar Ramirez, Keira Knightley and Mickey Rourke in the trailer for Domino (2005). ... Image File history File links A screenshot of Edgar Ramirez, Keira Knightley and Mickey Rourke in the trailer for Domino (2005). ... Edgar Ramirez (born March 25, 1977) is a Venezuelan actor. ... Keira Christina Knightley (pronounced IPA: ;[1] born 26 March 1985) is an English[2] film and television actress. ... Mickey Rourke (born September 16, 1956) is an American actor who has primarily appeared in drama, action, and thriller films. ...

Lateesha's grandaughter Mica is suffering from a blood disease and needs an operation urgently. The operation that Mica needs costs $300,000 which Lateesha does not have. Claremont comes up with a plan to get the money by robbing Drake Bishop, a billionaire client of his armored car business, of $10 million.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation are tipped about Lateesha's counterfeit drivers licence racket. They threaten to send her to jail unless she gives them information about Frances, whom they have been surveilling. Lateesha tells the FBI that Frances, his brother and his two friends are going to commit the robbery that she and Claremont are going to carry out.

Lateesha carries out the robbery with the help of Lashandra, Lashindra and Raoul, three of her co-workers at the DMV. Claremont finds out that Frances and his brother, who Lateesha framed for the robbery, are the sons of Anthony Cigliutti, a mob boss. Claremont phones Lateesha and tells her to abort the plan. Lateesha, Lashandra and Lashindra and Raoul go, leaving the money with Locus Fender, the getaway driver. Unknown to Claremont, Drake Bishop has been working with Anthony Cigliutti. Bishop has been laundering money for Cigliutti, meaning that the money that Claremont and Lateesha have stolen belongs to the mob.

Claremont gets Domino, Ed and Choco to apprehend Frances, his brother and his two friends and then tells them to deliver them to men working for Drake Bishop. Claremont then phones Domino and tells Domino, Ed and Choco to retrieve the $10 million from Locus Fender and to deliver it to Drake Bishop at the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Anthony Cigliutti is told about his sons arrest and is mistakenly led to believe that Drake Bishop has had his sons killed, when they have actually been released by Bishop's men on finding that they did not know anything about the robbery.

In Las Vegas, Domino gives $300,000 of the money to Lateesha for Mica's operation. Domino, Ed and Choco then go to meet Drake Bishop at the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino. Domino and Bishop, who is with his men, discuss the money. Anthony Cigliutti then turns up with his men. Cigliutti believes Bishop has had his sons killed and shoots Bishop. A gunfight breaks out and everybody is killed except Domino who manages to escape.

After having told Taryn Mills everything, Domino is released by the FBI. Mills advises Domino to retire from bounty hunting.

Background

In 1994 director Tony Scott was sent an article from the British newspaper the Mail on Sunday by his business manager Neville Shulman. The article, written by Sacha Gervasi and titled My gun for hire: Why a movie star's rebel daughter turned into a bounty hunter, was about an English woman named Domino Harvey who was working as a bounty hunter, apprehending fugitives who had skipped bail for the Celes King Bail Bond agency in South Central Los Angeles. While Harvey was one of the few female bounty hunters,^[2] what caught the attention of Shulman and Scott was that she was the daughter of the late actor Laurence Harvey. Image File history File links Domino Harvey; image cropped from a larger photo which appeared in the Oct/Nov 2004 issue of VLife. ... Image File history File links Domino Harvey; image cropped from a larger photo which appeared in the Oct/Nov 2004 issue of VLife. ... Domino Harvey (b. ... This article is about the album. ... Sacha Gervasi was born in London in 1965 and co-founded the group The Diceheads but left before they became famous and better known as Bush. ... Laurence Harvey (October 1, 1928 â€“ November 25, 1973) was an Academy Award-nominated Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films. ...

Tony Scott tracked Domino to Beverly Hills where she was living at the time with her mother Paulene Stone and Stone's then husband Peter Morton. He invited Domino to his office where he proposed a film of her life. Domino agreed and sold the film rights to her life. According to The Los Angeles Times, Harvey was paid $360,000 for the rights.^[3] This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Peter Morton (born Chicago in 1946) was the co-founder with Isaac Tigrett of the Hard Rock CafÃ©. His father is Arnie Morton, founder of Mortons, and his son is Harry Morton, founder of Pink Taco restaurants. ... The Los Angeles Times (also L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ...

Tony Scott interviewed Harvey about her life and her work bounty hunting. Scott also met and interviewed Ed Martinez and Choco, who were Domino's bounty hunting colleagues. She took him to meet Celes King III, the bail bondsman who they worked for.

Screenplay

Steve Barancik wrote the first draft of the screenplay^[4] which Tony Scott rejected. Another writer was asked to write a screenplay but Scott also rejected this script. Scott described the two rejected screenplays as conventional biopics of Domino Harvey's life, which he found to be boring.^[5] Finally, Richard Kelly was asked to write the screenplay after Scott read his script for Southland Tales.^[6] Kelly was sent transcripts of Domino Harvey's interviews with Tony Scott, though he did not read the scripts that Scott had rejected.^[7] Southland Tales is a 2007 science fiction / drama / dark comedy film, written and directed by Richard Kelly. ...

Cast

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Release and box office

The release date of the film was announced and delayed several times. The original release date was August 19, 2005 (announced on April 7). On May 22, the release date was changed to November 4. On June 28, the release date was changed to November 23. On July 11, it was moved to October 14, 2005, which was the date the film was released on.^[8] is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 192nd day of the year (193rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

While the film did receive some positive reviews, notably from both Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper who gave the film "two thumbs up", reviews were generally negative. Popular movie site Rotten Tomatoes lists the film as "Rotten" with a rating of only 17%; Metacritic scored the film at 36, and described the compiled list of reviews as "generally negative". The estimated $50,000,000 budget was not made back, as the film grossed only $20,351,133 worldwide, making it, in many eyes, a financial failure, especially considering that a standard feature film's "official" budget can grow by up to 50% due to advertising and marketing costs.^[9] Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... Richard Roeper (born October 17, 1959)[1] is a columnist/film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and, since September of 2000, has co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper with fellow film critic Roger Ebert. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and books. ...

DVD

The film was released on DVD on 21 February 2006. The DVD contained several extra features including an audio commentary with Tony Scott and Richard Kelly, deleted scenes from the film including a scene featuring a topless Knightley, featurettes on Domino Harvey and the visual style of the film, the teaser trailer and the theatrical trailer. While the film was released in its original widescreen format in all DVD regions, the film was also released in a fullscreen format on Region 1.^[10] is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... On a DVD (or laserdisc), an audio commentary is a bonus track consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, who talk about the movie as it progresses. ... Deleted scene is a commonly-used term in the entertainment industry, especially the film and television industry, which usually refers specifically to scenes removed from or replaced by another scene in the final cut, or version, of a film (including television serials). ... Nudity is a common subject both in fine arts and popular culture. ... Celluloid media Featurette is a term used in the American film industry to designate a film of approximately 3-4 reels length, or about 20-44 minutes in running time - thus midway between a short subject and a feature film; thus it is a small feature (ette is a common... Domino Harvey (b. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Trailer (film). ... Movie trailers are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown; they are commonly known as previews of coming attractions. ... The Wikipedia main page as viewed with a widescreen monitor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Deleted scenes

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In addition, the documentary "I Am a Bounty Hunter": Domino Harvey's Life, which is featured on the DVD of the film, contains behind the scenes footage of a deleted scene that is not included on the DVD. In the scene Domino goes to a bar in disguise in order to capture a man. A shot from this scene can be seen in the opening credits of the film. Amanda Foreman (born July 15, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress who became a regular on the college drama series Felicity (1998). ... Ian Ziering (born March 30, 1964) is an American actor best known for playing Steve Sanders on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210. ... Brian Austin Green, (born Brian Green on July 15, 1973 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California), is an American actor, best known for his role as David Silver on the television series Beverly Hills 90210, a character he portrayed from 1990 until 2000. ... Beverly Hills 90210 was a popular primetime television soap opera that aired from October 1990 to May 2000 on the Fox Network in the United States and subsequently on various networks around the world. ... For the Scottish TV comedy series, see All Along the Watchtower (TV series) All Along the Watchtower is a song written by folk-rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. ... The Jimi Hendrix Experience was a highly influential, though short-lived, English/American rock band famous for the guitar work of frontman Jimi Hendrix on songs such as Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, Fire, Hey Joe, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), All Along the Watchtower and Spanish Castle Magic. // Hendrix arrived in... The Stardust Resort & Casino was a historic casino resort located on 63 acres along the famed Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine) is a psychedelic alkaloid of the phenethylamine class. ...

Domino Harvey's death

On June 27, 2005, Domino Harvey was found unresponsive in the bathtub of her Los Angeles home. She died in a hospital from accidental overdose of the painkiller Fentanyl.^[11] At the time of her death she was under house arrest in her home in West Hollywood.^[12] Tony Scott and Mickey Rourke were among the people who attended her funeral. She was buried in Santa Barbara cemetery next to her father. is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Domino Harvey (b. ... Fentanyl is an opioid analgesic, first synthesized by Janssen Pharmaceutica (Belgium) in the late 1950s, with a potency many times that of morphine. ... Nickname: Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Santa Barbara Government - Mayor Marty Blum Area - Total 41. ...

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External links

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