He made his feature directorial debut with the horror flick Clown, but what really got him noticed was his 2015
film Cop Car.
Bacon, also recently starred in Spider - Man director Jon Watt's
film Cop Car, so it's hard to imagine that Kevin Bacon isn't in the back of their minds at Marvel.
Not exact matches
While
filming «Secret Lives of the Super Rich,» the
cops showed up after a concerned onlooker dialed 9 -1-1 to report a
car had driven into the bay.
Whether it is a finding a flamboyant in their trunk, marrying a hooker, stealing a
cop car or messing with Mike Tyson The Hangover has enough memorable moments to fill two party
films.
Even science fiction intrudes in the ruminations of a computer in a sympathetic
cop's patrol
car; these musings stand in, perhaps, for the missing Gorin character, but disrupt the
film's tone.
The
film starts out with Jake Blues (John Belushi, Animal House) being released from prison, picked up by his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd, Trading Places) in a used
cop car turned «Blues Mobile».
For fans of superhero cinema, that's amazing news, given that on the strength of «
Cop Car's» early buzz and his previous
film «Clown,» Watts landed the coveted job directing the next Spider - Man movie, co-produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures.
In one example from the
film, when Dillon's racist
cop happens upon a serious traffic accident, he risks his own life to save the life of a black woman trapped inside her
car.
When the action does hit it is as clean and fun as any
film with a $ 175 million budget and the Marvel brand slapped on it can expect to be, and is all the more impressive coming from a director who had only made small indie dramas (see Wattsâ $ ™
Cop Car if you havenâ $ ™ t).
The original 1974 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is a kind of blue collar cult
film, a smartly done crime thriller about smart crooks, a smart transit
cop and a battle of wits over the hijacking of a subway
car and the ransoming of the passenger.
Last Sunday, Jon Watt's
film «
Cop Car» at Hollywood Forever Cemetery kicked off Sundance NEXT FEST in Los Angeles.
«Morlando draws great performances out of his two young leads, Quebec's [Sophie] Nélisse and America's [Josh] Wiggins, who are like fugitives out of a French New Wave
film, discovering love while also hatching a plan on the run.They've had to suddenly leave their rural homes, in the mythical U.S. state of Great Lakes (according to
car licence plates), because Jonas has grabbed a big bag of cash from Casey's abusive bad -
cop dad Wayne -LRB-[Bill] Paxton), after furtively witnessing a criminal betrayal that turns into a bloodbath.The two teens take off, with Casey's dog in tow, but Wayne isn't far behind.
Hot - head police captains, torturous and talky bad guys, drug busts, loose cannon
cops, some domestic drama, and
car chases represent the bases you'd have to touch in order to make a decent rehash, but outside of a couple of scenes of Paul regurgitating famous
film lines from
cop flicks of the 80s (which isn't exactly true, as he mysteriously quotes from movies of other genres and eras as well), there isn't much to Cop Out one could call a loving spo
cop flicks of the 80s (which isn't exactly true, as he mysteriously quotes from movies of other genres and eras as well), there isn't much to
Cop Out one could call a loving spo
Cop Out one could call a loving spoof.
Meanwhile, newcomer Jon Watts, whose feature
film debut «
Cop Car» arrives in theaters August 7, will be filling the director's chair and was hand - picked by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige.
Director Anne Fletcher has helped turn the male buddy
cop genre on its head, mixing period jokes with the usual
car chases and shootouts associated with such
films.
The studios also announced Sundance director Jon Watts (
Cop Car) will helm the next solo Spider - Man
film.
I saw
films with stories about finding happiness even with cancer (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), the struggles of addiction (I Smile Back), transgender women in Los Angeles (Tangerine), post-apocalyptic love triangles (Z for Zachariah), a teenage girl's sexual awakening (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), relationships between interviewer and interviewee (End of the Tour, True Story), washed up Olympians (The Bronze), two kids who go for a joy ride (
Cop Car), psychological studies (The Stanford Prison Experiment), lesbian lovers coming - of - age (The Summer of Sangaile), being a single parent (People, Places, Things), and geeky kids learning how to grow up (Dope).
Spider - Man: Homecoming is directed by American filmmaker Jon Watts, of the
films Clown and
Cop Car previously.
From the first moments, in which a mysterious man arrives in a small town and gives a sideways look of apprehension and loathing at an oblivious
cop car driving by in the distance, the
film operates on a mood of barely restrained fury.
In 2015 he made his Sundance
film debut in Jon Watts» crime thriller
Cop Car, opposite Kevin Bacon.
Also, a dark horse candidate has emerged with former commercial director Jon Watts, whose feature
film debut
Cop Car recently debuted at festivals.
«It had a nice implementation of the
car - chase elements from 70s
films, which I loved,» he says, «but I was annoyed by the way it cheated on the physics — the
cop cars being much heavier and having incredible acceleration and top speed.»