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Original work | Sniper (1993) |
Years | 1993–present |
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Film(s) | Sniper (1993) |
Television film(s) | Sniper 2 (2002) |
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Sniper is a series of action and war films beginning with the 1993 film Sniper , which center upon the characters of Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) and Gunnery Sergeant Brandon Beckett (Chad Michael Collins), who work as Force Reconnaissance Scout Snipers in the United States Marine Corps.
Film | U.S. release date | Director(s) | Screenwriter(s) | Producer(s) |
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Sniper | January 29, 1993 | Luis Llosa | Michael Frost Beckner & Crash Leyland | Robert L. Rosen |
Sniper 2 | December 28, 2002 | Craig R. Baxley | Ron Mita & Jim McClain | Carol Kottenbrook & Scott Einbinder |
Sniper 3 | September 28, 2004 | P. J. Pesce | J.S. Cardone & Ross Helford | Carol Kottenbrook & Scott Einbinder |
Sniper: Reloaded | April 26, 2011 | Claudio Fäh | John Fasano | Claudio Fäh & David Wicht |
Sniper: Legacy | September 30, 2014 | Don Michael Paul | John Fasano & Don Michael Paul | Jeffery Beach, Phillip J. Roth & Scott Einbinder |
Sniper: Ghost Shooter | August 2, 2016 | Chris Hauty | Jeffery Beach & Phillip Roth | |
Sniper: Ultimate Kill | October 3, 2017 | Claudio Fäh | David Zelon | |
Sniper: Assassin's End | June 16, 2020 | Kaare Andrews | Oliver Thompson | Greg Malcolm, Vicki Sotheran & Oliver Thompson |
Sniper: Rogue Mission | August 16, 2022 | Oliver Thompson | Rhonda Baker, Bay Dariz & Mark Montague | |
Sniper: G.R.I.T. – Global Response & Intelligence Team | September 26, 2023 | Bay Dariz & Paul Parker | ||
Sniper: The Last Stand | January 2025 | Danishka Esterhazy | Sean Wathen | TBD |
Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett, an experienced sniper, and Richard Miller are sent on a mission to assassinate a Panamanian General.
Thomas Beckett and Jake Cole are tasked with assassinating a Serbian general responsible for ethnic cleansing attacks.
Sniper Thomas Beckett is hired by NSA officials William Avery and Richard Addis to perform a covert operation to eliminate a suspected terrorist kingpin in the People's Republic of Vietnam who was providing support for Jemaah Islamiyah.
With the assistance of Richard Miller, Marine Sergeant Brandon Beckett, son of Thomas Beckett, takes up the mantle set by his father and goes on a mission of his own.
After military leaders are assassinated, Gunnery Sergeant Brandon Beckett receives word that his father is one. Attempting to track down the assassin, Brandon finds out that his father is not dead, realizing that he is being used as bait.
Gunnery Sergeant Brandon Beckett is given yet another mission where he is tasked with protecting a Georgian gas pipeline from Arab sponsored terrorists, however, things become complicated when a professional terrorist sniper named Ravshan Gazakov enters the fray.
Master Sergeant Brandon Beckett is tasked with protecting a DEA agent from a drug cartel sniper, known as "The Devil".
Legendary sniper Thomas Beckett and his son, Special Ops Sniper Brandon Beckett, are on the run from the CIA, Russian Mercenaries, and a Yakuza-trained assassin with sniper skills that rival both legendary sharp shooters.
After discovering a human sex trafficking ring working with a corrupt agent, Brandon Beckett teams up with allies from his past, Agent Zeke “Zero” Rosenberg and Yuki "Lady Death" Mifune, to discover the identity of the agent and stop the ring. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
When an international terrorist cult threatens global political stability and kidnaps a fellow agent, Ace Sniper Brandon Beckett (Chad Michael Collins) and the newly-formed Global Response & Intelligence Team – or G.R.I.T. – led by Colonel Stone (Dennis Haysbert) must travel across the world to Malta, infiltrate the cult, and take out its leader to free Lady Death (Luna Fujimoto) and stop the global threat. Ryan Robbins and Josh Brener also star in this globetrotting entry to the Sniper franchise. [6]
Characters | Films | |||||||||
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Sniper | Sniper 2 | Sniper 3 | Sniper: Reloaded | Sniper: Legacy | Sniper: Ghost Shooter | Sniper: Ultimate Kill | Sniper: Assassin's End | Sniper: Rogue Mission | Sniper: G.R.I.T. – Global Response & Intelligence Team | |
1993 | 2002 | 2004 | 2011 | 2014 | 2016 | 2017 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | |
Master Gunnery Sergeant Tom Beckett | Tom Berenger | Mentioned | Tom Berenger | Mentioned | Tom Berenger | |||||
Brandon Beckett | Chad Michael Collins | |||||||||
Richard Miller | Billy Zane | Mentioned | Billy Zane | Billy Zane | ||||||
Colonel Chester Van Damme | J. T. Walsh | |||||||||
Corporal Doug Papich | Aden Young | |||||||||
Jake Cole | Bokeem Woodbine | |||||||||
Pavel | Tamás Puskás | |||||||||
CIA Agent James Eckles | Dan Butler | |||||||||
Colonel Dan McKenna | Linden Ashby | Mentioned | ||||||||
CIA Director Bill Avery | Denis Arndt | |||||||||
Paul "Finn" Finnegan | John Doman | |||||||||
Detective Quan | Byron Mann | |||||||||
Lieutenant Ellen Abramowitz | Annabel Wright | |||||||||
Martin Chandler | Patrick Lyster | |||||||||
Colonel Ralf Jäger | Richard Sammel | |||||||||
Major Guy Bidwell | Dominic Mafham | |||||||||
Gabriel "The Colonel" Stone | Dennis Haysbert | Mentioned | Dennis Haysbert | |||||||
Kate Estrada | Danay García | |||||||||
Agent John Samson | Joe Lando | |||||||||
Zeke "Zero" Rosenberg | Ryan Robbins | |||||||||
Yuki "Lady Death" Mifune | Sayaka Akimoto | Luna Fujimoto | ||||||||
Gildie | Brendan Sexton III | |||||||||
Pete | Josh Brener |
Crew/Detail | Film | ||||||||
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Sniper | Sniper 2 | Sniper 3 | Sniper: Reloaded | Sniper: Legacy | Sniper: Ghost Shooter | Sniper: Ultimate Kill | Sniper: Assassin's End | Sniper: Rogue Mission | |
Director | Luis Llosa | Craig R. Baxley | P. J. Pesce | Claudio Fäh | Don Michael Paul | Claudio Fäh | Kaare Andrews | Oliver Thompson | |
Composer(s) | Gary Chang | Tim Jones | David Safritz Marcus Trampp | Frederik Wiedmann | Patric Caird | Oliver Thompson | |||
Writer | Michael Frost Beckner Crash Leyland | Ron Mita and Jim McClain | J. S. Cardone Ross Helford | Screenplay John Fasano Story by Ross Helford John Fasano | Screenplay John Fasano Don Michael Paul Story by John Fasano | Chris Hauty | Oliver Thompson | ||
Characters by | Michael Frost Beckner and Crash Leyland | ||||||||
Sniper is a 1993 American action film directed by Luis Llosa. The film stars Tom Berenger and Billy Zane as snipers on an assassination mission in Panama. It is the first installment in the Sniper film series, and was followed by nine direct-to-video sequels: Sniper 2, Sniper 3, Sniper: Reloaded, Sniper: Legacy, Sniper: Ghost Shooter, Sniper: Ultimate Kill, Sniper: Assassin's End, Sniper: Rogue Mission, and Sniper: G.R.I.T. – Global Response & Intelligence Team. It was shot in Queensland, Australia, and debuted at number two in the United States.
Sniper 2 is a 2002 American made-for-television action film directed by Craig R. Baxley and starring Tom Berenger, Bokeem Woodbine, Dan Butler and Linden Ashby. The film premiered on Cinemax, on December 28, 2002 and was released to video and DVD on March 11, 2003, by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. This would be the final Sniper film to be released by the original film’s distributor, TriStar.
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Sniper: Reloaded is a 2011 American direct to video action film which was directed by Claudio Fäh and was the fourth installment in the Sniper film series and a sequel to Sniper 3 (2004). This film is the first in the series of Sniper that does not feature the character of Thomas Beckett, who was portrayed by Tom Berenger.
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