Lionsgate has released the first trailer for
The Protégé, a new action-thriller starring Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson, and Michael Keaton. The film opens in theaters on August 20th.
The Protégé stars Maggie Q as Anna, a contract killer who was rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Jackson) and trained as his protégé. When Moody is brutally killed, Anna plots revenge against his murderer (Keaton) in a weaving cat-and-mouse game. The trailer shows off plenty of knife fights, shootouts, and Bond-like glamour mixed with other harrowing action scenes, including one sequence where Anna dodges a shower of bullets while crawling on tiptoes through an air vent.