“Never Back Down: No surrender” Japanese DVD Cover
Martial arts star Michael Jai White (Never Back Down 2, Triple Threat, Accident Man) is set to star alongside Tyrese Gibson (Fast and Furious franchise) and John Malkovich (Con Air) in Yale Productions’ Red 48, an upcoming actioner from director Jon Keeyes (The Harrowing).
In the film, Gibson will play Kyle Snowden, a troubled former Marine turned child protective service officer who must save an immigrant child from a dangerous criminal who has trapped them and other hostages inside a convenience store. Adding more power to the keg: The store is owned by the Snowden’s stepfather, Sam Safty, being played by Malkovich. White plays Sparks, the Safty’s no-nonsense bodyguard and confidant. (via THR)
Production for Red 48 has wrapped, so expect a Trailer and release date in the near future. For now, we leave you with a “cut” clip (no pun intended) of Michael Jai White from Kill Bill.
Wonder if Tyrese will cry in this one.
Fun Fact: I’ve never seen Tyrese Gibson in anything. Looking at his filmography, I’m ok with that.
Paul, you saying you’ve never seen a single Fast&Furious film or the Statham Deathrace remake?
I saw ‘The Fast and The Furious’ in the cinema in my much younger days, and that experience clocked me out for any future installments (I think Gibson came in from ‘2 Fast 2 Furious’). I know the series headed in a different direction in the latter entries and became more action focused, so I should give them a try some day, and you can’t really go wrong with Statham!
Which reminds me, I really gotta check out the ‘Deathrace’ remake as well. So many movies, such little time, but it’s a nice problem to have. 🙂
Well Paul, I’d say you can take Gibson out of F&F, Tranformers 1-3 and Deathrace entirely without these movies suffering any dips in quality (the assumption being these flicks started off with some semblance of quality in the first place). Yeah FF5 onwards is when the series actually hits it’s stride and revels in it’s absolute goofy silliness and it does a better job of slowly accumulating a roster of action heavyweights like The Rock, Statham and Kurt Russell while giving some exposure to Gina Carano, Ronda Rousey and Joe Taslim than The Expendables series.
And speaking of Expendables, that’s exactly what Gibson’s character is at this stage, reduced to nothing more than tedious Comic Relief.
I generally can’t stand Paul W S Anderson’s movies, but Death Race does capture the ultra violence (but sadly not the exploitative nudity) of the Roger Corman original.