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Bruce Willis Seeks Faith In Vengeance In The New DEATH WISH Trailer
Remaking a classic is one thing. Selling it right is another and I’m pretty sure this one will find its audience in some capacity while others may feel differently to it. Watch the trailer below and peep the newest poster just beneath.
DEATH WISH: Revenge Comes In Many Names In The First Official Teaser Trailer
Actor Bruce Willis has amassed decades of cinema with many an action movie and blockbuster. The obvious Die Hard franchise comes to mind among his listed film credits of well over one hundred in his lifetime, and now he’s back and ready to add to that legacy with another potential starter in Eli Roth’s latest treatment of MGM classic Charles Bronson revenge saga, Death Wish.
Efforts to revive the title have come and gone over the past decade or so with a revolving door of stars and directors. Roth (Hostel, Hostel: Part 2, The Green Inferno) has since taken his seat in the director’s chair and thrown in a few changes added for a more realistic perception, setting Willis in the mix as the salty, stoic vigilante, Paul Kersey, whose peaceful family life is turned upside down following a violent home invasion, forcing him to seek his own bend on justice.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents director Eli Roth’s reimagining of the classic 1974 revenge thriller DEATH WISH. Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of Chicago violence when it is rushed into his ER – until his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes, Paul, burning for revenge, hunts his family’s assailants to deliver justice. As the anonymous slayings of criminals grabs the media’s attention, the city wonders if this deadly vigilante is a guardian angel or a grim reaper. Fury and fate collide in the intense, action-thriller DEATH WISH.
The first official teaser trailer is out this week following exclusive coverage at Yahoo! where Roth discusses his own drive to revive Willis’s action movie heyday glory, and with a film he hopes to match that of movies like A History Of Violence, Sicario, Eastern Promises, Unforgiven and Taken. It’s quite a list of examples and standards to operate by and says a lot about Roth’s ambitions here… but the trailer is here to speak for itself and it touts those ambitions nicely so far with radio host Sway Calloway setting the tone thusly.
Check it out below ahead of the film’s November 22 release from APR.
DEATH WISH Casts The Vigilante's Brother With Vincent D'Onofrio
Big things are abound for actor Vincent D’Onofrio next month. His next big screen venture, Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven will open the Toronoto International Film Festival which kicks off on the eighth prior releasing in theaters on September 23, which should be a ceremonial feat for moviegoers who’ve enjoyed Fuqua’s work, especially in recent years.
Looking forward and just several days thereafter, MGM and Paramount are officially commencing principal photography with locations set for Montreal and Chicago on the forthcoming remake of Michael Winner’s 1974 revenge classic, Death Wish. As such, it just so happens that D’Onofrio has landed a role according to Deadline with Eli Roth directing and Roger Birnbaum producing.
Taking its cues from Winner’s original – an adaptation of Brian Garfield’s 1972 novel, Bruce Willis will lead the way for a potential franchise of its own as Paul Kersey, an architect who resolves to take matters into his own hands when the justice system fails to bring the killers of his family to justice. D’Onofrio will play brother to Willis’s role along with Breaking Bad series co-star Dean Norris in the role of Detective Rains, both newly added to the fray compared to the previous iterations of the franchise.
D’Onofrio has other work in the mix as well with an appearance in F. Javier Gutierrez’s Rings this October, and Dax Sheperd’s film adaptation of hit TV show, CHiPs next year. The actor is also best known for his thrilling harness of Marvel villain, Wilson Fisk (a.k.a. Kingpin) in Netflix series, Daredevil, for which a third season remains pending.
