WHO’S IN IT?
Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids), Jason Statham (The Transporter), Jude Law (Road to Perdition), Rose Byrne (Bad Neighbours), Miranda Hart (Miranda), Bobby Cannavale (Blue Jasmine), Allison Janney (Juno), Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Get Rich Or Die Tryin’), Morena Baccarin (Serenity), Nia Long (Big Momma’s House), Nargis Fakhri (Rockstar), Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy), Björn Gustafsson (Cockpit), Verka Serduchka (film debut), Zach Woods (Silicon Valley), Jessica Chaffin (The Heat)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Paul Feig (Bridesmaids), director, writer, producer; Peter Chernin (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Jessie Henderson (The Heat) and Jenno Topping (Exodus: Gods and Kings), producers; Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder), composer; Robert D. Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel), cinematographer; Mellissa Bretherton (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) and Brent White (Knocked Up), editors
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Susan Cooper (McCarthy) is a desk-bound CIA analyst and also the unsung hero behind many of the agency’s most dangerous missions. However, she feels unsatisfied with her position and longs to experience what it’s like out in the field – a chance she is soon given when her partner, top agent Bradley Fine (Law), disappears off the grid and the identity of every other agent, including Rick Ford (Statham), is compromised. Cooper volunteers to go undercover to foil the plans of a deadly arms deal and prevent a global disaster, a mission she is woefully underprepared for…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Continuing the strong partnership between director Paul Feig and star Melissa McCarthy – they will soon reunite again for the forthcoming Ghostbusters reboot – Spy is an outrageously funny spy comedy from the pair that hopes to be one of the summer’s biggest laugh-fests.
