21 Bridges
STX Films brought footage and star Chadwick Boseman to CinemaCon 2019 to debut the first footage for21 Bridges.21 Bridgesis an impressive , high strength action thriller from establish TV managing director Brian Kirk , and produced by Anthony and Joe Russo ( Avengers : Endgame ) and star Chadwick Boseman .
Boseman made a special appearing to chat with chairwoman Adam Fogelson to excuse what made him choose this project and STX Films in a metre when he ’s getting offers from everywhere .
Fogelson begin this part of the presentation bu explicate that “ manifestly we are not in the tentpole business ” before talk about Chadwick Boseman ’s star power and success withBlack Pantherto applause of the consultation of film manufacture spokesperson , and explains that STX go for to make commercial moving-picture show of a dissimilar sorting . For Boseman , it was a combining of a script that read like a tight - pace , grievous activeness " ride " and one that have fast - pace dialogue that take him back to his house Clarence Day , with a cast that he help select . The collaboration and having the opportunity to produce and be involved in every stagecoach of the production , really spoke to him . Fog
21 Bridges Footage Description from CinemaCon
The opening scene is at a funeral , with voiceover tell that " your father die out protecting this city " as we see a untested boy in mourning who grows up to be a detective himself ( Boseman ) . " He teach you to follow you conscience , in an often savage human beings , " the voiceover uphold , explaining how this detective came to be so good and unequaled at what he does .
Skip forward to present , and at dark we see Keith David , a high up - ranking power at a crime scene saying it ’s the forged matter he ’s seen in 18 years on the force out . Eight officers were belt down in a gunplay against two extremely well - trained men ( Taylor Kitsch and Stephan James ) using subdue automatic weapons while responding to a robbery . We see immediate flashback shot of the shootout .
We then see J.K. Simmons explaining to Boseman , " I asked for you for a reason , " advert to how sure-enough he was when the police force headwaiter told him about his father ’s death . Boseman ’s character takes lead on the probe and explain if they do n’t close down Manhattan in the next 3 - 4 hour , the two gunmen will go away , so he wants to " shut the island . "
" We ’ve got 21 nosepiece in and out of Manhattan . Shut ‘em down . Three rivers . Close them . Four tunnels . Block them . Stop every train , and curl the subway system . Then , we swamp the island with blow . "
We then see a rush of different vista include cops encounter 300 paint of cocaine , when there should have been 30 , business men occupy about the line of descent market , hinting at gamy - up subversion . We see Boseman seeking out Sienna Miller ’s to look for the truth as she report what she ’s heard about him , as the brave one who hunts cop killers and who sees his own dada in every dead cop . The last fully grown picture of the footage sees Boseman get onto a subway car with Stephan James ' ( who had a breakout character inIf Beale Street Could Talklast year ) character as they confront each other .
Chadwick Boseman Makes Appearance at CinemaCon 2019
Boseman came on the stage , and first says " that was intense , " in answer to the footage . In answering questions about his career from Fogelson , Chadwick revealed how he worked with real - life LAPD and NYPD to prepare for the role , and saw saw some of the " horrific " thing they see , how the chore assume over their entire life , and affects them in person – this helped put him in the idea ready for the use and he describes it as " a spirit - change experience . " Boseman require to check that that view of police lives was ruminate in the moving picture .
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21 Bridgesopens in theatre this summer .
