In Armored, director Nimrod Antal takes us into the fast stakes, high paced world of the armored car guard, which apparently operates like a fraternity for grown-ups, much like the fire department or the cast of Stomp. But hold on to your girdle, grandma, because before you know it, there’s a heist plot. In a movie about armored cars? No effing way! Of course, things don’t quite go according to plan, because if they did it’d be an instructional video not a movie. Instead, the sh’t hits the fan Very Bad Things-style, and that sucks because no one likes a sh’t-covered fan, least of all MATT DILLON. Trust me on this one, bros.
As if we hadn’t already beaten the dead Predator horse and taken a dump inside its skull and used its spine as dildo for homeless people*, Robert Rodriguez is producing ‘Predators’. The latest word is that they’ve hired Nimrod Antal, director of the Hungarian subway movie Kontroll (which was kind of neat), to direct. Rodriguez said of the plot:
I can’t go too much into the story right now, because we’re still writing. But it still involves a very intense group of people stranded on a Predator planet discovering unspeakable horrors (that are not always from outside their group). So like the original movie, the title does have a double meaning. [via a million-word article on AICN]
Kontroll was interesting, but the list of foreign directors who made cool flicks elsewhere only to come to Hollywood and take paychecks to do garbage is long and consonant filled. In fact, the last guy attached to this project was Neil Marshall, who followed the badass Descent with post-apocalyptic car porn Doomsday. Anyway, I think this will be great if by “intense people” they mean Christian Bale and the silent Indian guy from the first Predator and they just growl at each other like dogs for two hours.
*though to be fair, I have heard people say AVP: R is actually pretty kickass.
Armored stars Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno, and Step Brother Stomp the Yard actor Columbus Short as a team of armored car guards. It comes from awesomely named director Nimrod Antal, the man behind the kooky Hungarian subway guard movie Kontroll. The trailer isn’t exactly interesting, but it has more reversals than I think I’ve ever seen. OMG, they’re getting robbed! …Psych! No they’re not, they’re good guys. …Psyche! No they’re not, they’re gonna rob their own armored car! But no one will get hurt. …Psyche! Yes they will! But Columbus and Matt are on the same side. …Psyche! No they’re not! Psyche! But maybe they are! Or not! Psyche! Haha, this movie got you good, you f*ckers.
