• Kate

  • Umair Aleem
  • Produced
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • 2017
  • Black List
  • 77.5
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Market: Thu, 19 Oct 2017Sold: Thu, 19 Oct 2017
AgentBryan Besser, Nicholas Mohebbi (Verve)
ManagerWill Rowbotham (3 Arts Entertainment)
StudioNetflix
A woman has 24 hours to solve her own murder.
A veteran assassin hunts down her killer after receiving a deadly poison that gives her only hours to live.
A highly skilled assassin has only hours to hunt down her own killer after receiving a deadly dose of poison.
An expert assassin must find her killer after learning that she has been fatally poisoned.
Film
Film, Female Protagonist, Action, Crime, Thriller, Dark, Hitman, Organized Crime, Revenge, Foreign Locale, Death, Killer, Violence/Violent
121
R
Medium
F
Unspecified
45
Attractive
Salt, John Wick, The Bourne Identity, Crank, Kill Bill, La Femme Nikita
Present day, 24 hours
Tokyo (intersections, streets, bath house, nightclub), Hotel room interior, office building, restaurant
Glimpses of the neon-lit city of Tokyo. Someone shudders and gasps. In a voiceover, we hear KATE (Adult) discussing her desire for retirement with VARRICK (Adult). Varrick tells Kate that he will meet her face-to-face in Tokyo to discuss retirement after she finishes her assignment.

Kate, alone in a bar, ends her phone conversation with Varrick. STEPHEN (Adult), an American, flirts with her, and the two have sex in Kate’s room. She pays him and he leaves. A BELLBOY (Adult) brings a cart with wine and a case containing a scope rifle. She drinks the wine, assembles the gun, and leaves with a precise efficiency.

At dawn, she is directed via an earpiece to the roof of an adjacent building. There, she assembles the rifle. As she is about to shoot her target, a horrible pain grips her stomach, and she vomits blood. The target leaves, but she tracks him and kills him. As she drives her escape vehicle, the pain becomes unbearable, and she crashes the car. Sometime later, Kate awakes in the hospital, and is informed by her doctor that she has been poisoned with radioactive material, and has less than a day to live. Determined to...