 Jonathan Lynn directed Grint in Wild Target, a 2010 comedy thriller film, which he starred in alongside Emily Blunt and Bill Nighy. A remake of the 1993 French film Cible Emouvante, Wild Target was made on a relatively small production budget of US $ 8 million. However, it was a commercial failure, only earning back US $ 3.4 million. It also garnered mostly negative reviews in the media, which criticised it for dishonouring the original film and wasting the comedic potential of its cast, but Grint also attracted some positive notice: "It ’ s nice to see Rupert Grint perform well in a role other than that of Ron Weasley, and it ’ s clear that he ’ s got a career ahead of him."
