Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Karl Urban’s new Prime Video movie The Bluff gets a swashbuckling first trailer — and February looks like it’ll be a pirate’s life for me
- Amazon released the first trailer for its new pirate film The bluff
- The film directed by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Karl Urban arrives at the end of February
- It was co-developed by the Russo brothers’ production company, AGBO.
Prime Video revealed the first trailer for its upcoming pirate film The bluff.
With Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Citadel) and Karl Urban (The boys), the swaggering R-rated film is set to hit Amazon’s streaming platform on February 25. Just over a month after launch – at the time of writing, anyway – so there’s no better time for its official teaser to be released online.
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Set in the mid-19th century, The bluff sees Chopra Jonas play Ercell ‘Bloody Mary’ Bodden, a former marine raider who, after escaping her violent past, settles in the Caribbean with her husband TH (The Rings of PowerIsmael Cruz Cordova), his son Isaac (Vedanten Naidoo) and his sister-in-law Elizabeth (Safia Oakley-Green).
However, when Connor (Urban), the notorious and menacing captain Ercell worked for, arrives seeking revenge for spoiler reasons, Ercell is forced to once again put her dormant violence-based skills to the test to fight for her and her family’s survival. Imagine what the PR team at one of the world’s top streaming services called a “realistic, adrenaline-pumping action-adventure about family, survival and the indomitable force of a mother’s love.”
Will the Russo brothers finally strike streaming service gold with The Bluff?
Although it wasn’t written or directed by Marvel stalwarts Joe and Anthony Russo, The Bluff was developed alongside Amazon’s MGM Studios by the pair’s production company, AGBO.
Confirmation of the Russo brothers’ involvement might be enough to send shivers down the spines of some readers. Indeed, very little, if any, criticism can be leveled at the siblings for their critically acclaimed and lucrative work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) or for their pre-Marvel Studios projects that include beloved comedy shows. Arrested development And Community.
Still, there’s no denying that such positivity has been harder to come by for the films and shows they’ve worked on with top streamers like Prime Video, Netflix, and Apple TV.
Of course, there have been notable successes. Despite mixed reviews, the Extraction movies and The gray man have been commercial successes for Netflix. Meanwhile, horror series Froma producer of MGM+ projects under the AGBO banner, has been praised by critics despite struggling to stand out in the same way that, say, Stranger Things made on Netflix.
There were, however, notable hiccups. Cherryan Apple original film and AGBO, Prime Video’s expensively assembled spy series Citadeland Netflix’s abject reinvention of the cult classic graphic novel The Electric State implicated the Russos to varying degrees.
If the Russo Brothers intend to break free from the view that they only make good Marvel movies that follows them everywhere they go, they need non-comic book projects like The bluff to start achieving success on a more consistent basis. Do so, and they might start plundering more of that precious gold. However, if they fail, their non-MCU productions will continue to sink like a ship with too many cannonball-sized holes in its hull.
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