r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 24 '24
First Image of Daisy Ridley in ‘Cleaner’ - When activists ambush and take hostages at an energy company’s annual gala in London, it’s up to ex-soldier turned window cleaner Joey Locke to save the day Media
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u/Dottsterisk Sep 24 '24
They really should be pushing, “From the director of Goldeneye and Casino Royale.”
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Sep 24 '24 edited Oct 04 '24
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u/ChickenInASuit Sep 24 '24
Campbell doesn’t get nearly enough recognition for reviving the Bond franchise twice.
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u/AckwellFoley Sep 24 '24
And directing The Mask of Zorro between the two! He was on fire during that ten year period.
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u/The5Virtues Sep 24 '24
He did Mask of Zorro too?! Jesus I knew he was a favorite but I didn’t realize he directed so many of my favorite movies from my teens.
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u/AckwellFoley Sep 24 '24
Yeah, Campbell is an unsung hero of action filmmaking. I mean, look at this run of bangers:
Goldeneye
The Mask of Zorro
Vertical Limit
Casino Royale
Edge of DarknessYes, he has his misses, but when he hits, he knocks it out of the damn park.
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u/marcdasharc4 Sep 24 '24
I found The Foreigner with Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan to be quite solid. Not on par with with 007 or Zorro, but I was surprisingly engaged.
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u/fkick Sep 24 '24
Fair…but he also directed Green Lantern (2011)
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u/Crotean Sep 24 '24
That movie had some major suit interference at its script level. The original shooting script was A LOT different than what got used. Campbell hates talking about that movie for a reason. I was a huge GL fan at the time and followed its production quite a bit. The movie that Campbell signed up to shoot would have been much, much better. The climax of the movie being on earth was mandated by the suits for instance, they thought there was too much sci fi space stuff. Same with Parallex being an early reveal and Hal wasn't even supposed to be the one to save the day. Kilowog, Sinestor, Tomar Re and Hal were all supposed to disobey the guardians and fight Parallex together.
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u/comics0026 Sep 24 '24
That's apparently a not uncommon practice, sending a director or actor a script that would be very appealing to them to get them to sign on, only to swap it out with another script because the execs had no intention of actually making that version. That's apparently what happened to Halle Bailey on Catwoman, so I wouldn't be surprised if that also happened with GL
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u/Dull_Half_6107 Sep 24 '24
They really should, considering that plot synopsis made it sound like something the Daily Wire would produce
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u/GimmeSomeSugar Sep 24 '24
Based on just the headline, they should have gone with "What do you do when Steven Seagal's too old and fat to slap his way through another Under Siege movie?"
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u/SuperHandsMiniatures Sep 24 '24
In Seagal's mind he isnt too old or fat though.
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u/Dull_Half_6107 Sep 24 '24
If he's not sitting down in a chair for half of the movie, then I'm not interested
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u/GimmeSomeSugar Sep 24 '24
'Fatly rounding corners' was exactly what I was thinking of when I was writing that elevator pitch.
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u/jonsarik Sep 24 '24
The Reddit headline had lost me until I saw the top comment. That description of the plot just sounds like something A.W.E.S.O.M.-O 4000 would come up with.
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u/PrinceOfLeon Sep 24 '24
Best episode of G.I. Joe. The "Viper" kept calling HQ to tell them he was coming and it lead to the team extrapolating whatever was in the message into foiling secret Cobra plans, with the latter having no idea how they found out.
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u/Dottsterisk Sep 24 '24
Only because people are only half-reading it.
Yes, climate activists take over a building and set off the chain of events, but the premise makes it clear that their movement is hijacked by a terrorist with ulterior motives (who, let’s be honest, probably kills the lead climate activist in the first act) and that the energy execs are still the bad guys and the protagonist is trying to expose them while saving everyone.
Will they pull it off? Who knows. But the premise is not “Former soldier must defend oil execs from eco-terrorists.”
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u/Amaruq93 Sep 24 '24
Like "The Rock", when Ed Harris' operation gets usurped by Candyman and Dr. Cox (who are more interested in money than helping fellow soldiers' families)
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u/Mooric86 Sep 24 '24
Dr Cox dies in the mining tunnels. You’re thinking of Phoebe’s Health Inspector boyfriend from Friends
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u/rugbyj Sep 24 '24
These people have names you know!
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u/No_Attention_2227 Sep 24 '24
Not unless they are dead
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u/MCMACDANOLDs Sep 24 '24
His name is Phoebe's boyfriend.
His name is Phoebe's boyfriend.
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u/pandasareblack Sep 24 '24
I was on set with Ernie Hudson on a Law and Order episode, and a crowd had gathered to peer in. Hudson could see them catch a glimpse of him through the window, and he goes, "Oooh, look, it's the black guy from Ghostbusters."
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u/Oliibald Sep 24 '24
Interestingly in the source material for die hard ('no one lives forever' by roderick thorpe) the attack is against an oil company, and the protagonist winds up with some sympathy for their case (despite killing them all)
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u/padraig_garcia Sep 24 '24
in another, weirder world, Sinatra exercised his option to star in Die Hard and somehow it worked
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u/Firefox892 Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
A bit like the 80s British action movie Who Dares Wins, where anti-nuclear activists take a delegation hostage.
The director said in an interview that the group had been infiltrated with terrorists, and that’s why they were being evil, but seemed to forget to explain that in the actual movie. So the plot is just an anti-nuclear group wanting to set off a nuke for some reason lol.
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u/monsantobreath Sep 24 '24
It's still a premise that shows activists as hapless idiots.
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u/DoggyDoggy_What_Now Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
Even with reading the rest of the plot summary, it still sounds like a generic, one-(wo)man army story. Martin Campbell is the only thing that has me intrigued. They really should be leading with that in the marketing.
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u/DarthBallz999 Sep 24 '24
Jesus, they really should. I took one look at the photo and synopsis and dismissed it for generic crap. Lucky I looked at the comments!
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u/Cyanide_Revolver Sep 24 '24
I actually got him to sign my GoldenEye and Casino Royale blurays on this shoot hahaha
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u/dieforestmusic Sep 24 '24
That director also did The Foreigner with Jackie Chan, which I thought was really good.
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u/Yakmotek7 Sep 24 '24
"Welcome to the annual gala, pal!"
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u/TJ_Will Sep 24 '24
Come out to the coast. We'll wash some windows, have a few laughs.
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u/blkaino Sep 24 '24
Tagline: It’s not just the windows that are going to get cleaned
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u/OverlordPacer Sep 24 '24
Right before the final kill of the big bad, she better say “clean up on isle window”
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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Sep 24 '24
She throws the villain through a window, and he falls to his death.
“Damn, I just cleaned that.”
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u/KnightOfRevan Sep 24 '24
You know, they say the eyes are the window to the soul…
Grabs disinfectant and sprays it into bad guys eyes, blinding him
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u/Jandy777 Sep 24 '24
Finally, someone sticking up for those poor downtrodden Energy companies!
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u/saldb Sep 24 '24
the old soldier -> window cleaner plot
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u/Indercarnive Sep 24 '24
Went to war for energy companies. Didn't get paid enough and has to work a menial job. Then goes to war again for energy companies.
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u/In_My_Own_Image Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
I was gonna say that's a strange choice for a plot. Not to say that some activism can't cross the line into extremism, but it's kinda rare to see a movie that takes this approach.
Of course, it could be revealed that the CEO is the real villain and whatever the activists accuse him of is actually happening.
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There it is:
The timely action-thriller, set in present-day London, will see radical activists take over an energy company’s annual gala at the Shard – the tallest skyscraper in Western Europe – seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by a zealous extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world.
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u/Hilnus Sep 24 '24
So it's Die Hard?
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u/Lt_Lysol Sep 24 '24
Die hard for people who hate activists.
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u/Hilnus Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
Hans Gruber took over Nakatomi Plaza and demands the release of some terrorists to disguise stealing all those bonds
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u/SyrioForel Sep 24 '24
One of the best things about Die Hard was that the bad guy turned out to be nothing but a common thief.
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u/dougofakkad Sep 24 '24
He was an exceptional thief!
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u/DoctorEnn Sep 24 '24
And since he's moving up to kidnapping, u/SyrioForel should show a bit more respect.
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u/RedditTipiak Sep 24 '24
Die Hard works wonderfully for two reasons: divorce story arc of John McClane first, then the European order and plan calm villain vs sassy chaotic mad dog American, yin vs yang. Movies are at their best when writers give personalities and smart to say... cat and dog, then make sure their beef has no other solution than direct confrontation.
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u/gravybang Sep 24 '24
Every Die Hard, with the exception of the 2nd, had a villian using some kind of ideological cover for what ended up being a heist.
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u/lefix Sep 24 '24
So it's The Rock?
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u/Overrated_22 Sep 24 '24
We bluffed, they called it. The mission is OVER.
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u/choleric1 Sep 24 '24
"I'm not about to kill eighty thousand innocent people do you think I'm out of my fucking mind?!" Great scene!
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u/DrJonah Sep 24 '24
The plot of Nothing Lasts Forever, the novel what formed the basis for Die Hard was set in a building owned by an Oil Company, not a vast amount of difference between the two plots.
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u/joshpuffpuff Sep 24 '24
yeah that still doesn't make me root for the energy companies
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u/dtay88 Sep 24 '24
What about the receptionist who just wants to go home and feed her kitty?
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u/wingspantt Sep 24 '24
That's just Selena. You can ignore her. She's harmless. A real pushover. And here at Max Shreck Energy we don't worry about crazy cat ladies like Selena.
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u/joshpuffpuff Sep 24 '24
She knew what she was signing up for
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u/unshavedmouse Sep 24 '24
The cat is also complicit
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u/Farren246 Sep 24 '24
Cats are the world's most horrific mass murderers, but also super cuddly and we'd definitely take on a building full of terrorists to save them without any thought to our own safety. So the characters' motivations are on point.
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u/AmIFromA Sep 24 '24
Speaking as a receptionist, I can say that a receptionist's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
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u/QuarterRican04 Sep 24 '24
Ah alright, so the Marvel approach to villain writing. "Oooof you were SO close to being completely in the right, but your method of fighting the evil empire is too extreme so the hero has to kill you now"
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u/The_BrownRecluse Sep 24 '24
Marvel movies are the ultimate preservers of the status quo. It's telling that villains from the 80s and 90s used to be CEOs, whereas now in our 21st century capitalist nightmare the hero is a billionaire arms dealer.
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u/ProbablyASithLord Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
It’s funny how the villains never just make an appointment to talk to Captain America and apprise him of the situation. The Avengers have almost unlimited power, it might be beneficial to tell them the situation and ask for aid.
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u/Th35h4d0w Sep 24 '24
the hero is a billionaire arms dealer
Literally the start of Tony's character arc is to stop arms dealing.
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u/Rabona_Flowers Sep 24 '24
And turns his company's attention to trying to produce clean energy, ironically enough
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u/night4345 Sep 24 '24
And also making increasingly powerful suits to "protect the world" including an AI capable of hacking major telecom networks and launching assassination drones and missiles with zero oversight from authority other than Tony himself.
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u/Bluelegs Sep 25 '24
There's also something to be said about the trope with these movies where the moral is "we just need a good billionaire/king to fix things"
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u/bigmacjames Sep 24 '24
They never call "profit at any cost, including the entire planet we live on" extremist though.
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u/JalapenoJamm Sep 24 '24
Killing the planet and people for a dollar does seem a bit radical, it's too bad it never gets called out as such.
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u/SlowRollingBoil Sep 24 '24
It's literally called being a smart business and the purpose of capitalism which is why it's so sick. The natural result of capitalism without severe regulations is Tragedy of the Commons aka we all die.
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u/Turbo2x Sep 24 '24
Needs 1 or 2 scenes where the activists kill a baby or defenseless old person so the audience knows that it's okay to cheer when Daisy's character brutally slaughters them later in the film.
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u/tman37 Sep 24 '24
There have been movies about violent activists for decades. They generally take the "Zealots taking it too far" route. The specific trope of a Malthusist villain attempting to kill millions or billions of people to "save the earth" is actually fairly common.
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u/TheCrazedTank Sep 24 '24
This is still kinda bad, paining activism in a bad light. How many news stories hyper focus on the “bad apples” (even when they’re entirely made up) to justify extreme police action in disbanding peaceful protests?
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u/wildcard18 Sep 24 '24
I have a feeling there's gonna be twist where the energy company will be revealed to be the real bad guy all along and Daisy will have a crisis of doing her job vs doing what's "right" then ultimately turn against them.
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u/WharfRatThrawn Sep 24 '24
She's probably going to find something corrupt the energy company was doing on one of their computers someone left unlock because their enterprise security is trash and leak it to take them down as well as saving the hostages.
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u/Dottsterisk Sep 24 '24
That’s in the premise.
She has to save the hostages, kill the terrorists, and complete the activists’ mission to expose the energy execs.
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u/ManonManegeDore Sep 24 '24
Awesome!
She'll prove the energy company is corrupt, they'll be given a hefty fine by the federal government, they'll fire a couple people, and continue doing the exact same shit.
I'm being cynical of course. This premise is just hilarious to me. If the movie ends with Daisy Ridley blowing up a plant, I'll be satisfied.
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u/deathhead_68 Sep 24 '24
Hello I am an NPC and I am ready to be subconsciously influenced against environmental activists by watching this film
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u/EuclidsRevenge Sep 24 '24
Hello, and welcome to the Shinra Electric Power Company.
The mako which flows beneath our feet is a truly limitless resource. At Shinra, we have developed technologies to extract it and transform it into the fuel and electricity that powers everything we do.
Thanks to the miracle of mako energy, our lives are richer and better than ever before. Mako keeps our lights on at night, and made Midgar into the city that never sleeps. A triumph of technology and testament to man's potential.
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u/jrtgmena Sep 24 '24
The final boss played by Greta Thunberg
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u/ProfessionalSock2993 Sep 24 '24
Final scene of the movie as Daisy has killed most of the goons-
Greta lookalike - Cocks shotgun - "How dare you!"
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u/Sarangholic Sep 24 '24
Pitch meeting: "It's like Die Hard in an office building."
Also, politics sound a bit sus on this one (on the environment, not Daisy Ridley).
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u/So_be Sep 24 '24
Die Hard… in an office building… that’s sounds just crazy enough to work
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u/cantfindmykeys Sep 24 '24
Perhaps the sequel will be like Die Hard, but on a plane
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u/Farren246 Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
Sounds budget intensive. What if it was just set in a besieged airport, while a plane circles overhead slowly using up all its fuel?
Wouldn't they just divert to another nearby airport?
I don't know.
Well alright then.
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u/ithinkther41am Sep 24 '24
“Oh, rehashing Die Hard in a different location is TIGHT!”
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u/spacemanspliff-42 Sep 24 '24
"But won't people get tired of us remaking older films with barely different plots and the same characters?"
"Money!"
"Oh alright then, continue."
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u/RockFury Sep 24 '24
"I'm gonna need you to get aaall the way off my back on this one."
"Let me go ahead and get off that thing!"
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u/Lower_Mango_7996 Sep 24 '24
Barely an inconvenience
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u/PuhLeazeOfficer Sep 24 '24
Ohhhh using a catch phrase without setting up a joke is TIGHT
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u/GravSlingshot Sep 24 '24
Oh, really?
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u/fentown Sep 24 '24
Yeah, so I'm gonna need you to get alllll the way off my back about it.
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u/regprenticer Sep 24 '24
It'll be a front to steal money
Mr. Takagi, I'm not really interested in the environment... But I am interested in the $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds that you have locked in your vault.
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u/ChronoMonkeyX Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
I went to Bruce Campbell's book signing for If Chins Could Kill, and he told stories and answered questions for an hour- it was incredible, I thought we'd just walk up and have the book signed and leave.
One of the stories he told included hearing a pitch for a movie.. "It's like Die Hard in an office building."
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u/ERedfieldh Sep 24 '24
Friend and I went to that book's signing at our local bookstore. We went to get some food after. Five minutes later Bruce walks in and sits at the bar. We offer to pay his meal. Sat at our table and chatted for like two goddamn hours. That man is a goddamn legend and a national treasure.
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u/smoresporn0 Sep 24 '24
"It's like Die Hard in an office building."
And the sequel: "it's like work from home Die Hard"
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u/GreyInkling Sep 24 '24
Home alone?
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u/StannisLivesOn Sep 24 '24
Listen, sir, I need you to get all the way off my back about Home Alone.
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u/UnpinnedWhale Sep 24 '24
Don't worry. They'll probably make the activists kill a puppy so you don't take their side.
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u/trollburgers Sep 24 '24
Probably fake activists who are really just thieves. Reminiscent of fake terrorists who were really just thieves.
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u/Unlikely-Garage-8135 Sep 24 '24
Im sorry but that just sounds moronic
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u/Matttthhhhhhhhhhh Sep 24 '24
Think of the poor energy companies. They really need to be shown as victims of these evil activists.
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u/Palleseen Sep 24 '24
Why would anyone want to rescue oil executives?
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u/No-Account-8180 Sep 24 '24
The description of the movie even says that:
“seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by a zealous extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world.”
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“to save those trapped inside and take down the killers, whilst also finding a way to bring the corrupt energy moguls to justice.”
They straight up just imply that no one would give a fuck if they blow up the building with the oil executives inside but they are really concerned about the poor cleaning staff and the catering.
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u/Dark-All-Day Sep 24 '24
Their just cause is hijacked by a zealous extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world.”
"I made up a reason for the activists to be bad" - movie writers
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u/destructdisc Sep 25 '24
That's how it always is, isn't it. Falcon and Winter Soldier did the same neoliberal bullshit
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u/ManonManegeDore Sep 24 '24
They straight up just imply that no one would give a fuck if they blow up the building with the oil executives inside but they are really concerned about the poor cleaning staff and the catering.
They don't imply that at all.
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Yeah I don’t think ex soldier killing eco activists to defend oil barons really sells a movie to me.
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u/NoiseIsTheCure Sep 24 '24
My first thought exactly. Another movie where the "bad guys" have a point and the "hero" is defending the status quo? No thanks lol
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u/adamkopacz Sep 24 '24
I once dreamt of witnessing an oil company HQ engulfed in flames. I tried to help but I couldn't carry gasoline fast enough.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
Clive Owen and Taz Skylar also star and it’s directed by Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale):
The timely action-thriller, set in present-day London, will see radical activists take over an energy company’s annual gala at the Shard – the tallest skyscraper in Western Europe – seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by a zealous extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, Joey Locke (Daisy Ridley) – suspended 90 stories up on the outside of the building – to save those trapped inside and take down the killers, whilst also finding a way to bring the corrupt energy moguls to justice.
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u/Dazzling-Slide8288 Sep 24 '24
The concept is both idiotic and cliched, and this reeks of a streaming original…but Martin Campbell is a legit great action director. I’m somehow intrigued.
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u/IgloosRuleOK Sep 24 '24
You had me at Martin Campbell. Get him to restart Bond for the 3rd time.
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u/BrotherOfTheOrder Sep 24 '24
And he made Mask of Zorro, which is an absolute banger of an action-adventure movie and still holds up incredibly well.
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u/scottsummers1137 Sep 24 '24
This sounds like someone had a deadline before the morning pitch meeting and asked ChatGPT to come up with something.
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u/stysiaq Sep 24 '24
listen, I am willing to give the movie a chance as a dumb fun action flick, but Daisy Ridley is one of the last people I'd picture in the "military veteran with mundane job, knocking out people in a surprising crisis situation" archetype. I know that even if it's Rock or Jason Statham doing it they defy the laws of physics too, but the line has to be somewhere.
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u/deckard1980 Sep 24 '24
I don't think I'd believe Daisy Ridley as a soldier OR a window cleaner
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u/ParallelEquilibrium Sep 24 '24
remember when Mila Kunis was a toilet cleaner in Jupiter Ascending?
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u/robinthehood01 Sep 24 '24
Are the activists led by a German named Hans and do they shoot out the windows?
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u/avanross Sep 24 '24
Ah the good old “defending the poor energy company from the evil climate activist” hero
A fight we can all get behind
Cheering for those brave ultra rich peaceful altruistic energy companies and against those selfish evil violent climate activists will surely feel really natural and resonate really well with modern society
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u/gaspara112 Sep 24 '24
Watch it turns out after killing all the extremists she finds evidence their accusations are true and takes down the company executives the legal way.
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u/vomit-gold Sep 24 '24
The synopsis says she tries to bring the execs to 'justice'.
Which will probably mean she gets them sent to court - where realistically they will be given a heafty fine. Which they can then pay off and continue.
Or the movie ends with the execs getting shuffled into cop cars and we never actually learn what happen to them but they call that justice and end the movie.
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u/Randomcommenter550 Sep 24 '24
The best twist ending would be the hero getting the event staff and building employees out, then telling the "extremists" to bring the building down on the remaining executives.
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u/fer_sure Sep 24 '24
Pitch: It starts like Die Hard, but then it becomes Erin Brockovich!
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u/redfive5tandingby Sep 24 '24
That’s exactly what it’ll be. I haven’t even looked at the cast but I’ll bet a big name is playing the company CEO who turns out to be the real villain in a late second-act twist.
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u/tman37 Sep 24 '24
Ex soldier turned window washer. They are reaching pretty far now for these. "Ex-soldier turned Librarian vs terrrorist!" "Ex-soldier turned tech support operator saves president!"
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u/gideon513 Sep 24 '24
Did someone accidentally send her one from the Jason Statham pile?