PREVIEW: The Contractor (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Chris Pine (Wonder Woman), Ben Foster (Hell or High Water), Gillian Jacobs (Life of the Party), Eddie Marsan (Filth), Nina Hoss (The White Masai), Amira Casar (At Eternity’s Gate), Fares Fares (Zero Dark Thirty), J. D. Pardo (Fast & Furious 9), Florian Munteanu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident), director; J.P. Davis (Fighting Tommy Riley), writer; Basil Iwanyk (Sicario) and Erica Lee (The Informer), producers; Pierre Aïm (La Haine), cinematographer; Theis Schmidt (Empire North), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

After he is involuntarily discharged from the Marines, James Harper (Pine) joins a paramilitary organisation in order to support his family. However, on his first black-ops mission with an elite team of soldiers, James soon finds himself alone and hunted in Eastern Europe, where he must survive and find out the motivations behind those who betrayed him…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Chris Pine flexes his action-lead credentials further in this tense military thriller that appropriately comes from the producer of Sicario.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 6TH MAY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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