Steven Soderbergh’s mysterious spy drama Black Bag will get an official theatrical launch date from Focus Options.
Because the Hollywood information cycle continues to churn with anticipation for the launch of Deadpool & Wolverine, presidential candidate endorsements, and enthusiasm for the rising numbers of the summer season field workplace, Focus Options is able to make headlines by assigning a date for Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming spy drama Black Bag. The studio says Black Bag opens in theaters on March 14, 2024. Focus will launch the movie within the US, and Common Photos Worldwide will deal with worldwide distribution.
Black Bag is a high-stakes thriller starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, in addition to Regé-Jean Web page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, and Pierce Brosnan. Steven Soderbergh directs Black Bag from a script by David Koepp. Soderbergh and Blanchett beforehand labored collectively on his 2006 noir thriller The Good German. Moreover, Blanchett performed a component within the movie Ocean’s 8, a part of Soderbergh’s Ocean’s 11 franchise. Soderbergh produced Ocean’s 8 however didn’t direct that one. He and Fassbender beforehand labored collectively on his 2011 motion thriller Haywire. And along with collaborating on Presence, Soderbergh and Koepp additionally labored collectively on the 2022 thriller Kimi.
Cate Blanchett’s subsequent silver-screen outing is Eli Roth’s Borderlands, an motion extravaganza primarily based on the best-selling online game franchise from 2K and Gearbox Software program. Blanchett performs Lilith, a Vault Hunter, within the movie coming to theaters on August 9.
Right here’s the synopsis: “Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas (Ramirez). Lilith allies with an unexpected team – Roland (Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap (Black), a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands – but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.”
Borderlands additionally stars Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramirez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Haley Bennett, Olivier Richters, Gina Gershon, Cheyenne Jackson, Charles Babalola, Benjamin Byron Davis, Steven Boyer, Bobby Lee, Ryann Redmond, Penn Jillette, and Janina Gavankar, who performs “a new, key character” known as Commander Knoxx, somebody who has not been within the video video games. Jack Black offers the voice of the robotic Claptrap.
Michael Fassbender lately accomplished work on David Sandberg’s long-gestating sequel, Kung Fury 2. The story will give attention to Kung Fury’s universe, which has no actual connection to the quick film apart from the lead character. The anticipated Kung Fury movie stars Alexandra Shipp, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Hasselhoff, and extra!
Whereas it’s good to have a launch date for Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, we all know little or no concerning the movie up to now. We’ll share extra particulars after we obtain updates about this curious spy undertaking.
