Scott Adkins joins Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in RIP, against the law thriller written and directed by Joe Carnahan.
Deadline reviews that Scott Adkins (John Wick: Chapter 4) has joined the solid of RIP, Joe Carnahan’s (Narc) upcoming crime thriller for Netflix. The movie is about to star Matt Damon (Oppenheimer) and Ben Affleck (The Accountant 2) and follows a “staff of Miami cops whose belief begins to fray once they uncover tens of millions in money in a derelict stash home. As exterior forces study in regards to the dimension of the seizure, all the things for the staff known as into query — together with who they will depend on.“
Within the film, Adkins is about to play Affleck’s brother, and searching on the image above… I should purchase it. There’s positively a resemblance. The remainder of the solid contains Catalina Sandino Moreno (From), Néstor Carbonell (Misplaced), Sasha Calle (The Flash), Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One), and Kyle Chandler (Lanterns). Along with directing RIP, Carnahan additionally wrote the script.
Damon and Affleck used to look collectively extra usually within the ’90s, but it surely was whereas co-writing the script for Ridley Scott’s The Final Duel alongside Nicole Holofcener that Damon realized they wanted to prioritize working collectively once more. “I remember my wife said to me one day: ‘I haven’t heard you laugh like that in 15 years,’” Damon mentioned. “We got here out of that have going: Why aren’t we doing this extra usually? And stepping into your 50s you simply go: If we don’t make it a precedence, it’s simply not going to occur.“
Scott Adkins was just lately seen starring alongside Dave Bautista in The Killer’s Sport. Based mostly on the novel by Jay Bonansinga, the movie follows “veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.” Adkins performs one of many assassins out to kill him. Sadly, our personal Tyler Nichols didn’t precisely love the movie, calling it a “generic action film that switches gears so many times it doesn’t know what it wants to be.” You possibly can try the remainder of his assessment proper right here.
