Aussie drug flick The Mule is heading our way with a belly full of narcs, ready to corrupt our eyeballs at the London Film Festival over the next fortnight. Here’s an identity parade’s worth of character posters depicting the film’s cast of n’er-do-wells. See if you can spot the one who used to be Elrond, looking much more likely to bust a villain’s head with a phone directory than exude serene elfish vibes.
Set in 1983, The Mule follows benighted drug smuggler Ray Jenkins (Angus Sampson) as he returns to Australia from a footie club trip to Thailand with heroin secreted inside his person. He’s been persuaded/duped into this by his teammate Gavin (Saw star/writer Leigh Whannell).
Like Maria Full Of Grace, the consequences are grave; unlike that Columbian-set art houser, they promise resin-black laughs as coppers Hugo Weaving and Ewen Leslie keep Ray under surveillance and wait for nature to run its course. With 20 condoms of class A and constipating meds inside him, the unwitting drug smuggler has time, if nothing much else, on his side. Click on the UK-debuting trailer below for a closer look.
Co-directed by Sampson and Tony Mahony, The Mule screens at the BFI London Film Festival before making its UK-wide bowbrightcove.createExperiences(); at a later date.