When Joe Carnahan’s Smokin’ Aces hit the big screen back in 2006 it seems to have spawned a micro-genre of assassin versus assassin and mostly direct-to-DVD films. We were big fans of the sheer lunacy of director Scott Mann’s The Tournament but hated Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball with all of our hearts. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for Robert Schwentke’s Red based on Warren Ellis‘ graphic novel hitting screens in October.
This movie looks to have been completed for quite a while and once went under the name ‘Rogue’s Gallery’. Brought to you by first-time director Fouad Mikati and first-time screenwriters Sam Levinson and Brian Watanabe we have two opposing teams of killers squaring off with each other in the workplace. The trailer is playing it like an action comedy with a hard R rating.
Operation Endgame tells the story of The Fool (Joe Anderson), the latest recruit of a secret organization that employs two competing teams of spies and assassins, all taking their codenames from the Tarot deck. Taken under the not-so-sheltering wings of Judgment (Ving Rhames) and the High Priestess (Maggie Q), the Fool has to learn the ropes in an oddball workplace where office politics really is life or death and his ex-girlfriend (Odette Yustman) is his chief competition. Worse, he’s the prime suspect when their top supervisor, The Devil (Jeffrey Tambor) turns up dead. Now, the assorted members from both teams are at each others throats to keep from being the next victims of a lethal “corporate downsizing.”
From an interview two years ago in Creative Screenwriting, scribe Brian Watanabe mentions that he was an advertising copy writer who had won the Screenwriting Expo contest back in 2004. Not bad for following your dreams when your first movie ends up starring a bunch of cool B-list stars. Out on DVD on July 27th.
We’ll keep you posted on the carnage:goodness ratio of this movie later this month. At lets be honest. We’ll watch anything with Zack Galifianakis, Ving Rhames and Maggie Q in it. But all for different reasons obvs.
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