In what looks like a fun, female spin on the
John Wick formula,
Karen Gillan star in the new action thriller
Gunpowder Milkshake as a mother-daughter assassin team forced to take on the ruthless crime syndicate that once employed them. The first
Gunpowder Milkshake trailer has arrived, and it just looks like a blast, especially when you see the full ensemble of assassins in the movie.
Gunpowder Milkshake Trailer
In
Gunpowder Milkshake, Karen Gillan plays Sam, an assassin raised by the crime syndicate known as The Firm. Turned into a deadly assassin, Sam finds herself killing the wrong people to protect a young girl (
Netflix announced that
Gunpowder Milkshake, which it scooped up last month in a deal with Studiocanal, will hit the streaming service on
July 14, 2021. The film stars Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Angela Bassett,
Paul Giamatti, Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh, and
Chloe Coleman and follows “three generations of women fight back against those who could take everything from them in the mother of all action movies.” The entire movie takes place over the course of one night.
Here’s a more detailed synopsis for the film directed by
Navot Papushado and written by Papushado and
Ehud Lavski:
Sam (Karen Gillan) was only 12 years old when her mother Scarlet (Lena Headey), an elite assassin, was forced to abandon her. Sam was raised by The Firm, the ruthless crime syndicate her mother worked for. Now, 15 years later, Sam has followed in her mother’s footsteps and grown into a fierce hit-woman. She uses her “talents” to clean up The Firm’s most dangerous messes. She�
Michelle Yeoh, and
Carla Gugino, has just been scooped up by the streaming service, which will debut it sometime this summer in the U.S., while Studiocanal will release in the UK, France, Germany, AUZ/NZ, and STX will handle distribution in Canada, Latin America, and China. There’s also already a sequel in the works.
Deadline is reporting that Netflix picked up U.S. distribution rights for
Gunpowder Milkshake, an action movie from director
Navot Papushado. The film will head to Netflix this summer in the U.S., while “Studiocanal fully financed and will retain the international rights where they plan to distribute the film in their home territories with a planned international theatrical roll out around the world.”
Marvel s Karen Gillan and
Game of Thrones star Lena Headey feature in a brand-new look at upcoming action thriller movie
Gunpowder Milkshake and they look seriously ready for business.
Guardians of the Galaxy star Gillan plays Sam, a skilled assassin raised by a crime syndicate known as The Firm, while Headey stars as Sam s hitwoman mother Scarlet, who abandoned Sam when she was a child.
The new image shared by Studiocanal UK on Twitter, captioned Like mother, like daughter features the pair standing in front of a bookcase, each holding two guns and looking toward each other in determination. StudioCanal