SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE: Jorma Tomilla’s Quest For Vengeance Gets Even More Personal In The Spectacular Official Trailer Debut!
The movie opens in U.S. theaters on November 21!
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SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE Brandishes Heavy Weaponry In A Stylish New Finnish Poster
The movie opens in Finland beginning in October
RAMBO: Millenium Media Eyes Prequel With ‘Sisu’ Director
Yup. Rambo’s coming back… Word has it that Millenium Media is revamping the IP for a new origin story set during the Vietnam War with none other than Jalmari Helander directing the film. The company is also eyeing a production start in October over in Thailand. Helander will direct from a screenplay by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani (Black Adam), with the film billed as a prequel to Ted Kotcheff’s inaugural 1982 film, First Blood, based on David Morell’s 1972 Rowman & Littlefield book. Kevin King-Templeton will produce for Templeton Media alongside Les Weldon, Jonathan Yunger and Avi Lerner. Exec producing are Trevor Short, and Bonfire Legends’ Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk. The news comes courtesy of Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman who also notes that Sylvester Stallone is well aware of the project and is currently not involved. Stallone debuted the character in Kotcheff’s film for Orion Pictures, translating Morell’s novel […]
SISU Red-Band Trailer Sees Jorma Tommilla Slaying Nazis With Fearless Intent
Director Jalmari Helander and actor Jorma Tommilla have been a boon together in spotlighting prospective cinema out of Finland with titles like 2010’s Rare Exports and Samuel L. Jackson 2014 co-starrer Big Game, both featuring Tommilla’s son, Onni, whose own career has since expanded with several other directors and projects in the past decade. The trio eventually got back together and welp… they did it again, this time with the wintery survival actioner, Sisu which had its premiere in Toronto last September and at Sitges the following month. With its official local release in January, other territories may follow suit, just as Lionsgate has with its official trailer debut on Tuesday which you can view below. During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they […]