Ben Wheatley has been promising that Free Fire will be “muscular, tough and spare” and from the noises coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival, that’s exactly what he’s delivered. The thriller has a first trailer that you can check out below.
Free Fire is set in Boston in 1978. The story, which Wheatley is pitching as a muscular crime flick in the spirit of Melville, Hawks, Scorsese and Walter Hill, charts the fallout from a gun-running hook-up orchestrated by Brie Larson in a deserted warehouse. At its centre are two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy and Michael Smiley), on a connect with a pair of arms traffickers, Ord (Armie Hammer) and Vernon (Sharlto Copley), but soon wishing they’d given the whole enterprise a wide berth when the bullets start flying. Cue a desperate battle for survival.
Free Fire is getting a special footage preview presented by Wheatley at American Airlines Presents Empire Live on September, with tickets onsale now. It makes its bow in UK cinemas on 31 March, 2017.