One of my most anticipated movies of the year is Ben
Wheatley’s High-Rise. Reviews out of the Toronto
International Film Festival, where it debuted, were mixed, but it looks right
up my alley, I adore the J.G Ballard novel that serves as the source, and
Wheatley is the perfect director to bring it to the big screen. We still have a
while to wait for High-Rise, but anytime Ben Wheatley makes
a movie, it’s near the top of my must-see list. And now we have word that he
has another, Free Fire, on the way. It just got picked up
for distribution, which means we’ll get to see in in theaters for ourselves,
and it sounds damn near perfect.
High on Room, and it’s Oscar win for lead
Brie Larson, A24 continues to be total badasses and ride their phenomenal wave
of incredible films by picking up Wheatley’s Free Fire. A24
snatched up the film as the previous distributor, Alchemy, has been having
financial difficulties.
What is Free
Fire about, you ask? Here’s a synopsis:
Free Fire centers around an arms deal that goes spectacularly and explosively wrong. Justine (Brie Larson) has brokered a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two Irishmen and a gang led by Vernon and Ord, who are selling them a stash of guns. But when shots are fired during the handover, complete pandemonium ensues, with everyone at the scene suddenly thrust into a heart-stopping game of survival.
As if a new Ben Wheatley movie isn’t enough to get stoked
about, I told you Free Fire sounds perfect. And that’s far
from all. In addition to Brie Larson, who I’ll watch in anything, the cast
features Sharlton Copley, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, and
frequent Wheatley collaborator Michael Smiley. Wheatley himself wrote the
script, along with his wife, Amy Jump. Oh, and it was produced by a little guy
named Martin Scorsese. Yeah, you want to see this.
Because this is a Ben Wheatley joint, you know Free
Fire isn’t going to be as simple and straightforward as the synopsis
sounds. Wheatley likes to operate within genre confines and border only to
smash and subvert them in dark, twisted ways. We’ve seen it with mysteries in
Kill List and romantic road trip comedies in
Sightseers, and now it looks like he’s taking on action
thrillers. I can’t wait to see what he has in store for us.
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