Month: July 2024

Bad Boys: Ride or Die, digital, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence

While I take shelter in the safety of my air-conditioned home, Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die is cranking up the summer heat by making the latest action blockbuster starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence available on Digital and On Demand on July 23. According to When to Stream, fans can expect the film to debut for purchase on July 23, though Sony Pictures has yet to announce the film’s digital release date.

When to Stream says Bad Boys: Ride or Die will be made available for purchase through streaming outlets like Prime Video, Apple TV+, and VUDU.

The new sequel sees Will Smith and Martin Lawrence back in the roles of Miami narcotics detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett. They’re joined in the cast by Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, and Joe Pantoliano. New additions to the cast include Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, and Rhea Seehorn. Tasha Smith is also on board to play Marcus Burnett’s wife, replacing Theresa Randle, who played the character in the first three movies in the franchise.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die finds Lowrey and Burnett investigating corruption with the Miami PD. However, they’re turned into fugitives after being set up, forcing them to work outside the law to crack the case.

While speaking with Variety, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah said they’d like to make Bad Boys 5 a more “international” story. “We’re going to first see what this is going to do,” Fallah said. “But what we want [is] to go around the world with them.”

El Arbi added, “In every country we were imagining, how would Mike and Marcus be in France, or how would they be in the U.K., or how would they be in Dubai, or in Morocco, or in Africa, or in Asia? There’s a lot of interesting comedy that you could do with them. We’ve gotta push it to the next level in terms of action.” The directors added that they hadn’t heard anything about a potential sequel from Sony other than Tom Rothman emailing congratulations on the success of Ride or Die. If they return to direct Bad Boys 5, they will have directed more franchise installments than Michael Bay.

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson Bullet Train

We’ve been waiting months to find out whether or not Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Guy) has actually landed the role of James Bond – but in the meantime, he’s working on the race-against-the-clock thriller Fuze, which is currently filming in London and has Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie (who, by the way, was on the short list of directors considered for the Bond film that ended up being No Time to Die) at the helm. We first heard of this project back in February, and since then Taylor-Johnson has been joined in the cast by Theo James (Divergent), Sam Worthington (Avatar), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki), Elham Ehsas (The Kite Runner), and Honor Swinton-Byrne (The Souvenir), and now Deadline reports that Saffron Hocking (Top Boy) has also been added to the cast.

Details on the characters being played by these cast members are being kept under wraps.

Scripted by Ben Hopkins, who has previously written Simon Magus, Janice Beard, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, The Market, Lost in Karastan, Hasret: Sehnsucht, Marionette, In Search of Monsters, Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie, and Inside (2023), Fuze shows what happens when the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb at a London construction site sparks a mass evacuation as bomb disposal experts descend to defuse it. But the distraction also provides the perfect cover for a bank heist.

Mackenzie is producing the film alongside Gillian Berrie of Sigma Films and Sebastien Raybaud and Callum Grant of Anton. Anton is fully financing the film and Sky will handle the theatrical release in the UK and Ireland.

In addition to Hell or High Water, Mackenzie has previously directed The Last Great Wilderness, Young Adam, Asylum, Hallam Foe, Spread, Perfect Sense, Tonight You’re Mine, Starred Up, and Outlaw King.

Fuze sounds like a very promising project to me, so I look forward to seeing how it’s going to turn out.

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