Say what you will about Mel Gibson, but we’re still fans. Sure his off-screen antics were troublesome to family and friends, but for the rest of us — those of us who don’t know him personally — all we really have are his performances and films. Mad Max, Gallipoli, The Bounty, Lethal Weapon, Tequila Sunrise, Maverick, Ransom, Payback, The Patriot, Signs, Get the Gringo. The guy makes good movies, typically playing characters involved in violent situations, and now the first trailer has dropped for his latest film where he plays a character involved in a violent situation.
Blood Father sees Gibson as John Link, an ex-con who works as a tattoo artist out of his trailer on the outskirts of an American desert. His teenage daughter’s been missing, but when she suddenly reappears it’s with trouble on her tail in the form of drug dealers who want her dead. We first reported on the film just over two years ago, and it’s finally gotten both a trailer and a release date of August 25th… in Australia. Check out the first trailer below.
I’m in. Gibson is at his grizzled best here and definitely looks the part of a man with a crime-filled past and future. He seems very much at home with dishing out the deadly force in the name of protecting/avenging his child — something he’s done before in The Patriot, Ransom, and Edge of Darkness. His post-“troubles” films haven’t done all that well at the box office, but you should really check out Get the Gringo if you haven’t yet. Erin Moriarty (Captain Fantastic) plays his daughter, and the pair are joined by the likes of William H. Macy, Diego Luna, and Michael Parks.
Director Jean-Francois Richet lost some good will with his English-language debut, 2005’s Assault on Precinct 13 remake, but divorced from our love for John Carpenter’s classic his film is actually a solid action/thriller. The better entry on his resume though is his two-film crime epic, Mesrine, which tells a grand tale punctuated with brutal acts of violence. Blood Father‘s script, by Peter Craig (The Town) and Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton), is an adaptation of Craig’s own novel.
Gibson’s other 2016 release, Hacksaw Ridge, is his long-awaited return behind the camera — his first since 2006’s Apocalypto. The film is a World War II-set tale about the first conscientious objector and features a pretty solid cast including Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn, Hugo Weaving, and Sam Worthington.
Blood Father opens in Australia this August, and we’re hoping a U.S. release isn’t too far behind.
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