“Tornado” Theatrical Poster
Writer/director John Maclean, who is perhaps best known for 2015’s Slow West, is back with Tornado, an upcoming period thriller starring Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction), Jack Lowden (Dunkirk), Takehiro Hira (Shōgun) and Koki (Ox-Head Village).
The film, set in the rugged landscape of 1790s Britain, follows Tornado (Koki), a young and determined woman who finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father’s (Hira) traveling puppet samurai show crosses paths with a gang of ruthless criminals led by Sugarman (Roth) and his ambitious son Little Sugar (Lowden). In an attempt to create a new life for herself, Tornado seizes the opportunity to take matters into her own hands and steal the gold from their most recent heist (via Deadline).
Tornado will be released by Lionsgate later this year. Until then, here’s the Trailer:
Slow West was great, so I’m expecting good things from this one.
I was interested in Slow West, but I think it went over my head. It was like a combination of what Hal Hartley and Alejandro Jodorowski would do.
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It was also a bit much when the main character realizes the woman he loves is with someone else, and then salt on a shelf literally pours into his open wound. As Ralph Wiggum would say, it symbolized obviousness.
That’s a fantastic description! Totally accurate. And I can see why obvious symbolism would rub someone the wrong way, but the whole thing was so unusual that I didn’t mind at all.
Thank you. I suppose Slow West was meant to be one of those movies that rubs certain people the wrong way, and anybody who “got it” was automatically one of the manner-of-speaking cool kids.
Sometimes I go for absurdist and surreal entertainment, but sometimes it goes too off the deep end for me. Tornado appears to be more of a linear narrative, so we shall see how it turns out.
This looks interesting.
The trailer is now out.
https://youtu.be/JCW7OoSp0bI