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Kevin costner and hailee steinfeld movie12/10/2023 ![]() But he finds it a little hard to concentrate on the job at hand when he’s simultaneously trying to deal with Zoey, who harbors longstanding resentment over his absent fatherhood, and the large brood of squatters who have taken over his ramshackle Paris apartment.ĭirector McG, who trafficked in similar territory with 2012’s This Means War, throws in enough high-octane action sequences, including a harrowing car chase through the streets of Paris, to please genre fans. Constantly smoking a cigarette to indicate her coolness, she’s the sort of ridiculous creation that would no doubt inspire riotous chortling were the film to be screened at Langley.Įthan’s mission is to kill “The Wolf,” who makes it his business to supply dirty weapons to terrorists the world over. PHOTOS: 35 of 2014’s Most Anticipated MoviesĮthan, whose hacking cough in the first moments indicates that he’s got more than a bad cold, is recruited for the mission by Vivi ( Amber Heard), a vampish CIA handler who apparently thinks that the best way to keep a low profile is to wear skintight leather outfits and bright red lipstick. Cue a running gag in which every time Ethan is about to, say, torture a bad guy, he’s interrupted by a phone call from Zoey signaled by her personal ring tone, the Icona Pop song “I Love It (I Don’t Care).” Based on a story by Luc Besson, who also co-scripted, its main plot element is not Ethan’s perfunctory assignment to kill a eurotrash villain but rather his intense desire to reconnect with his long estranged wife, Christine ( Connie Nielsen), and teenage daughter, Zoey ( Hailee Steinfeld). It’s a good thing the film has him, because this comic spy thriller is such a preposterous mashup of action, humor and sentimentality that it desperately needs his anchoring presence. Playing Ethan, a dying CIA agent enticed to go on one last mission by the promise of an experimental drug that could prolong his life, the veteran actor effortlessly exudes the cool charisma, here tinged with a comic world-weariness, that reminds us why he became a star in the first place. Jackson and Lawrence Fishburne passed on the movie, which follows a young black teen who spends Christmas with his estranged grandparents. Through his grandfatherâs Christmas Eve sermon and a stylized, dream-sequence retelling of the classic Nativity story, he learns about the importance of faith and family. According to Blackfilm, "Whitaker is expected to play multiple characters during the Nativity sequence." Angela Bassett will play the boy's grandmother, and Jennifer Hudson will play the mother. As a big fan of Lemmons' last film, Talk to Me, I'm glad that production is set to begin in January 2013.Hit the jump for casting news on McG's action film starring Kevin Costner.According to Deadline, True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld is set to star opposite Kevin Costner in an untitled action film directed by McG and produced/co-written by Luc Besson. The film (previously titled Three Days to Kill) centers on a dying secret service (Costner) agent who retires in order to reconnect with his family. The Secret Service offers him the chance to use an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment, and the agent finds himself "trying to juggle his family, his mission, and the drugâs hallucinatory side-effects." Steinfeld will play his estranged daughter.Steinfeld has been absent from theaters far too long since her amazing turn in True Grit, but she's set to return to the big screen in a big way next year. In 2013, she'll be seen in Can a Song Save Your Life, Romeo and Juliet, and Ender's Game.Yet another member of the AARP generation of action movie stars returns to show us how it’s done in 3 Days to Kill, marking Kevin Costner‘s first big-screen leading role in many a moon. ![]() ![]() We have a couple of quick casting stories for you this morning. First up, I'm pleased to report that Kasi Lemmons' gospel musical Black Nativity has finally found a lead actor by casting Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker. As we previously reported, both Samuel L. ![]()
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