From the Vault: Remington 11-87 from “No Country for Old Men“

We’re back in “The Vault“ at the movie prop house Independent Studio Services (ISS) with motion picture armorer Larry Zanoff. Today, Larry shows us the silencer-equipped Remington 11-87 shotgun carried by the psychopathic hitman Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem, in “No Country for Old Men.“ The script simply called for a silenced semi-auto shotgun - but at the time (2005) such a weapon didn’t exist! So Larry and his colleagues had to get inside the head of the Anton Chigurh character and create the type of gun he would have built. (Spoiler Alert: they didn’t build a real silencer; the “silenced“ shots were created through sound editing.) The result? One badass assassin’s weapon that became almost another character in the movie! Looking for more Brownells videos? Right HERE: