Hayden Christensen only has one shot to save his son’s life in the new trailer and poster forFirst KillwithBruce Willis. This action-thriller is the latest from director Steven C. Miller, who recently wrapped production on the highly-anticipatedEscape Plan 2: Hades, starring another big screen icon, Sylvester Stallone.First Killactually marks the third collaboration between Steven C. Miller and Bruce Willis, following 2015’sExtractionand last year’sMarauders.
Lionsgatedebuted the first trailer today, along with the poster which features bothHayden Christensenand Bruce Willis. to reconnect with his son Danny (Ty Shelton), big shot Wall Street broker Will (Hayden Christensen) takes his family on a hunting trip to the cabin where he grew up. While out hunting with Danny, the trip takes a deadly turn when they stumble upon several robbers and witness the murder of one of the criminals.
After becoming entangled in a bank heist gone bad that results in the kidnapping of Danny, Will is forced to help the kidnappers evade thepolice chief(Bruce Willis) and recover the stolen loot in exchange for his son’s life. The supporting cast includes Megan Leonard as Will’s wife Laura, Gethin Anthony as Levi Barrett, the man who kidnaps Will’s son Danny, along with Tyler Jon Olson as Tom and Shea Buckner as Charlie. Lionsgate has set a July 21 release date forFirst Kill, which will go up against Paramount’sDunkirk, Universal’sGirls Tripand STX Entertainment’sValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Since this film will also be released on VOD the same day, it most likely will not get a wide theatrical release, but that has yet to be confirmed.
This action thriller also marks the fourth collaboration between director Steven C. Miller and producers Randall Emmett and George Furla. They first started working together on 2015’sExtraction, which starred Bruce Willis and Kellan Lutz, before reuniting with last year’sMarauders, with Bruce Willis, Dave Bautista and Christopher Meloni, and this year’sArsenal, starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and Adrien Grenier. They are also also producing the director’s next two films,Escape Plan 2: Hades, which is currently in post-production, andEscape Plan 3, which has already been given the green light, withSylvester Stallonereturning to star.
Bruce Willis will next be seen inOnce Upon a Time in Venice, which hits theaters next weekend and reunites the actor withCop Outwriters Mark Cullen and Robb Cullen, who also direct. He also stars as Paul Kersey in director Eli Roth’sDeath Wishremake, which doesn’t have a release date at this time, but is expected to arrive in theaters at some point this year. He will also return to theUnbreakableuniverse with director M. Night Shyamalan for a new film entitledGlass, which is a follow-up to bothUnbreakableand this year’s hit thrillerSplit, where the actor made a surprise cameo during a post-credit sequence. Take a look at the first trailer and poster forFirst Killbelow.
