New Poster and Photos For Jennifer Lawrence's Russian Assassin Thriller RED SPARROW
A new poster and a collection of images have been released for Jennifer Lawrence's upcoming thriller Red Sparrow. I'm really looking forward to this Russian assassin spy thriller because it looks fascinating. It almost looks like it could be an origin story for Marvel's Black Widow. The film is based on the book by Jason Matthews and here's the synopsis:
Dominika Egorova is many things. A devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at all costs. A prima ballerina whose ferocity has pushed her body and mind to the absolute limit. A master of seductive and manipulative combat.
When she suffers a career-ending injury, Dominika and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future. That is why she finds herself manipulated into becoming the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons. After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow the program has ever produced. Dominika must now reconcile the person she was with the power she now commands, with her own life and everyone she cares about at risk, including an American CIA agent who tries to convince her he is the only person she can trust.
When talking about what drew her to this story, Jennifer Lawrence said:
"One of the things that drew me into the story, is that it really is a personal story for a character, which I think is pretty rare in terms of the spy genre. They tend to be much more political, or tend to be much more, kind of, plot-driven, and less personal and personal dilemma driven. And it’s one of the things that drew me in, I’m very drawn to kind of stories about sort of isolated, lonely characters trying to survive. And that’s what this story is."
Lawrence goes on to say that she believes Red Sparrow "is probably the most specifically genre type of film that I’ve made. Most of the things that I’ve done before have been kind of hybrids, in a sense. ... The spy genre is something quite well-worn, and so one of the aspects that excited me was the real personal, emotional, visceral story that this film has. But it was also the tone. And then there’s a violence to it, there’s a perversity to it, there’s a sexuality to it, there is a slow burn aspect to it. It’s not an action film, it really is a thriller. It’s filled with intrigue. And that was something that was really exciting to me. You know, I always like trying to do something different. I don’t want to do the same thing over and over again. So it was a fun world, specifically, tonally, to explore for me, and I think also for Jen. And really exciting for me, now, having made four films with her, to do something completely different from the world of Panem and Katniss."
Red Sparrow was directed by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games) and it also stars Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeremy Irons. To watch the previously released trailer for the film, click here.
Red Sparrow hits theaters on March 2, 2018.
Via: IGN