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Renny Harlin Bonds With Pierce Brosnan For Gold Heist Film
Legendary action and horror filmmaker Renny Harlin had long wanted to collaborate with world-renowned Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, best known for playing the suave spy James Bond in four installments of the longrunning franchise. He finally had his wish granted with The Misfits, an action-packed heist film in which Brosnan plays a cool and brilliant international thief who joins forces with a band of young, smart and savvy modern-day Robin Hoods.
Harlin, who hails from Finland and has a long list of credits including A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and the 2016 Jackie Chan starrer Skiptrace, assembled an eclectic group of international actors, including Mike Angelo (Full House), Rami Jaber (Tough Love), Hermione Corfield (XXX: Return of Xander Cage), Jamie Chung (Lovecraft Country, Dexter reboot), Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction) and Nick Cannon (Drumline). Producer Rami Jaber serves double duty as a producer and actor, playing an enigmatic character in the film known simply as The Prince.
The heist crew proposes to serial prison escapee Richard Pace (Brosnan) that he join them in their plot to steal millions of dollars-worth of gold bars from a corrupt international private prison operator named Warner Schultz (Roth) who has stashed the loot for a terrorist organization at one of his facilities. Pace’s estranged daughter, Hope (Corfield) joins in the action and, over the course of their adventure, bonds with dad. Calling themselves The Misfits, the ring plans to steal the gold and then donate it to UNICEF. Each member of the group possesses a specific skill, such as Chung’s Violet is a martial arts expert while Mike Angelo’s character, Wick, is an energetic explosives expert, required to break into a highly fortified prison in Abu Dhabi, which contains a secured vault with the gold locked inside. Meanwhile Brosnan’s Pace uses his cunning to help orchestrate the operation to infiltrate the prison and steal the loot, all under Schultz’s nose.
From Sofia, Bulgaria, where the peripatetic filmmaker has just wrapped production on The Refuge, a horror film involving the occult and a returning combat veteran, he is eager to talk up The Misfits, which is mostly set in Abu Dhabi, working—finally—with Brosnan, wrangling camels and his five-year China sojourn that ended at the start of the global pandemic.
The Avenue will release The Misfits in theaters Friday June 11, and On Demand and Digital Tuesday June 15. |
