WE CAN BE HEROES (PG)

WHO’S IN IT?

YaYa Gosselin (Lord Finn), Priyanka Chopra (Baywatch), Pedro Pascal (Wonder Woman 1984), Christian Slater (True Romance), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Sung Kang (Fast & Furious), Taylor Dooley (The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D), Akira Akbar (Captain Marvel), Haley Reinhart (film debut), Andy Walken (The Most Hated Woman in America), Andrew Diaz (film debut), Brently Heilbron (Days of Delusion), Hala Finley (Back Roads), Isaiah Russell-Bailey (Throwback Holiday), Lotus Blossom (film debut), Lyon Daniels (film debut), Nathan Blair (film debut), Vivien Lyra Blair (Bird Box), Adriana Barraza (Babel), Brittany Perry-Russell (The Choir Director), J. Quinton Johnson (Everybody Wants Some!!), Christopher McDonald (Happy Gilmore), Dylan Henry Lau (Paper Tiger)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids), director, writer, producer, cinematographer; Ben Ormand (The Lovebirds), producer; composer TBA; editor TBA

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

When aliens kidnap the world’s superheroes, their children are transported to a government safe house. However, one of the children, Missy Moreno (Gosselin) – whose father is superhero Marcus Moreno (Pascal) – will stop at nothing to rescue her dad, and soon convinces the rest of the kids to team up and use their own superpowers to form an out-of-this-world team, rescue their parents, and save the world…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Robert Rodriguez returns to family filmmaking with a new superhero epic that children everywhere will love, as well as fans of the director’s cult classic The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, whose title characters also make appearances here.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 25TH DECEMBER 2020 (AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX)

 

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