Academy Award-winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) is getting ready to debut his new film, Widows, which will push the auteur into the realm of high-end action/drama. Led by Viola Davis (The Help, Fences), Widows, an adaptation of a 1983 British miniseries, follows a group of women whose husbands were recently killed during a heist gone wrong. With the financiers of the operation upset at the outcome and willing to blame the surviving family members, the recently widowed decide to make amends by completing one final high-stakes job.
McQueen, who shares a writing credit on Widows with Gillian Flynn (Sharp Objects), has already proven himself at artful story-teller with an eye towards detail and character development (Hunger, Shame). It is, therefore, an exciting premise to see McQueen take his skill and talent and apply them to a wholly different genre. From the looks of the trailer, the result of the on-screen and behind-screen expertise may give us a new action-thriller classic, akin to Heat. The character interactions feel intense and suspenseful thanks to what we can assume is a sharp script given the writing team, and the action appears to be blockbuster quality. Widows could very well end up being something special.
Below is the official synopsis for Widows, courtesy of 20th Century Fox:
From Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption. Widows is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Oscar® winner Viola Davis), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms. “Widows” also stars Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Daniel Kaluuya, Lukas Haas and Brian Tyree Henry.
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