Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker David Mamet (Redbelt, Disaster, State and Major) comes out of a 10-year hibernation at present with a trailer for his upcoming thriller Henry Johnson. The jail drama finds Shia LaBeouf (Holes, The Peanut Butter Falcon, The Tax Collector) and Evan Jonigkeit (The Night time Home, Archive 81, Bone Tomahawk) turning up the warmth inside a hostage state of affairs.
Right here’s the official synopsis for Henry Johnson courtesy of the undertaking’s manufacturing firm 1993:
Written and Directed by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet, Henry Johnson follows the title character (Jonigkeit) as he navigates his seek for an ethical heart, after an act of compassion upends his life. Trying to authority figures he encounters alongside the best way — together with his eventual cellmate, Gene (LaBeouf) — Henry’s journey leads him down a highway of manipulation and moral uncertainty. The movie is an exploration of energy, justice and the implications of letting others select your path for you.
In David Mamet’s Henry Johnson trailer, Henry (Evan Jonigkeit) types a novel friendship with Gene (Shia LaBeouf), a charismatic legal who whispers like a snake into Henry’s ear concerning the worth of secrets and techniques, manipulation, and what to do while you seemingly maintain all the facility. Whereas Henry contemplates his subsequent strikes, a hostage state of affairs spirals uncontrolled as uncertainty surrounds the scene.
In accordance with at present’s Henry Johnson press launch, David Mamet “is an award-winning playwright, filmmaker and author. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Glengarry Glen Ross — currently on Broadway in a revival starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr — as well as Academy Award nominations for his screenplays of Wag the Dog and The Verdict. His feature film directorial credits include The Spanish Prisoner, Oleanna, House of Games, State and Main, Heist, Spartan, The Winslow Boy, Redbelt and Phil Spector.”
Chris Bauer (True Blood, Heels, The Wire) and Dominic Hoffman (S.W.A.T., The Voices, Swamp Lion) star alongside Jonigkeit and LaBeouf, with Lije Sarki and Evan Jonigkeit producing. Peter Baxter, Marcel Bonn-Miller, and Sheldon Stone are government producers.
Henry Johnson is an adaptation of Mamet’s 2023 play of the identical title. The movie will probably be launched independently in partnership with manufacturing firm 1993. Henry Johnson releases on Might 9 by way of the movie’s web site. It should additionally get a simultaneous launch on the Aero Theatre in Los Angeles. What do you consider at present’s Henry Johnson trailer? Tell us within the feedback part under.
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