Special Behind-the-Scenes Featurette From ARKANSAS Focuses on John Malkovich
We’ve got a fun behind-the-scenes featurette from the movie Arkansas, starring Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games), Vince Vaughn (Dodgeball), John Malkovich (Con Air, Being John Malkovich), and Clark Duke (The Office), who also directed the film in his directorial debut. Clark also wrote the script along with Andrew Boonkrong.
The short featurette includes a bit from the film, but mostly focuses on what it’s like to like to work with Malkovich, who Clark Duke says is surprisingly hilarious. Malkovich seems to have really enjoyed playing this role, which is a bit of a throwback to the type of guys he grew up with.
Here’s the synopsis:
Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they’ve never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog’s proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin then settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johnna find themselves directly in Frog’s crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire. Based on John Brandon’s best-selling book of the same name, ARKANSAS weaves together three decades of Deep South drug trafficking to explore the cycle of violence that turns young men into criminals, and old men into legends.
Check it out below, and watch Arkansas, which is now available on Apple, Amazon, On Demand platforms and Blu-ray and DVD, released on May 5, 2020.