PREVIEW: The 355 (12A TBC)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Penélope Cruz (Volver), Fan Bingbing (Lost in Beijing), Sebastian Stan (I, Tonya), Édgar Ramírez (The Last Days of American Crime), Emilio Insolera (Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes), Jason Wong (The Gentlemen), John Douglas Thompson (Glass Chin), Hiten Patel (The Children Act), Leo Staar (film debut), Oleg Kricunova (Rogue Trader)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), director, writer, producer; Theresa Rebeck (Seducing Charlie Barker), writer; Kelly Carmichael (The Chaperone) and Jessica Chastain (Ava), producers; Junkie XL (Mad Max: Fury Road), composer; Tim Maurice-Jones (The Woman in Black), cinematographer; John Gilbert (Hacksaw Ridge) and Lee Smith (Inception), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Mace Brown (Chastain), a wild card CIA agent, teams up with three other international agents – MI6 computer specialist Khadijah (Nyong’o), German BND rival Marie Schmidt (Kruger) and Colombian DNI psychologist Graciela (Cruz) – to track down and retrieve a top-secret weapon after it falls into the hands of violent mercenaries. However, their every move is being watched by mysterious Chinese MSS agent Lin Mi Sheng (Bingbing), who has her own objectives…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Star and producer Jessica Chastain introduces a wily band of female heroes to the world, in a globe-spanning espionage action-thriller that promises to shake up the status quo for the better.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 7TH JANUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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