'Now You See Me' Sales Art And Info: Louis Leterrier's Magic Heist Movie Poised To Begin
As the American Film Market goes on, we see a lot of synopsis and sales art releases for upcoming films. A lot of times these aren't all that illuminating, because the synopsis info just rehashes what we already know, and the sales art is created before anything is ever shot, so at best it can only get across the most basic idea of the film. (Comepare, for example, the sales art for Drive to the final posters.)
But Louis Leterrier has a movie shooting early next year called Now You See Me that might be worth highlighting once more. I'm interested in the film because it represents a break from the movies Leterrier has done in the past (The Transporter, The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans) and in part because it has a pretty impressive cast led by Mark Ruffalo and Jesse Eisenberg. The sales art out of AFM positions the film, tonally, in Ocean's Eleven territory, while the synopsis clarifies a few roles for some of the actors. Both are below.
As the poster below makes clear, the cast also includes Woody Harrelson, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Melanie Laurent. The synopsis below has some information about roles for a couple of those actors that I think we haven't presented before.
The script is by Boaz Yakin (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) and Edward Ricourt, with rewrites by Josh Applebaum & Andre Nemec (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), and Ed Solomon (Men in Black). The release date is January 18th, 2013.
The Four Horsemen, a magic super-group led by the charismatic ATLAS (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of high-tech magic shows, first astonishing audiences by robbing a bank on another continent, and then exposing a white-collar criminal and funneling his millions into the audience members' bank accounts.
FBI Special Agent DYLAN (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes—and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist. But he's forced to partner with ALMA (Melanie Laurent), an Interpol detective about whom he is instantly suspicious. Out of desperation he turns to THADDEUS (Morgan Freeman), a famed magic debunker, who claims the bank heist was accomplished using disguises and video trickery. One thing Dylan and Alma agree on is that the Horsemen must have an outside point person, and that finding him (or her) is key to ending the magicians' crime spree. Could it be Thaddeus? Or Alma? Or could it really be...magic?
As pressure mounts and the world awaits the Horsemen's spectacular final trick, Dylan and Alma race to find an answer. But it soon becomes painfully clear that staying one step ahead of these masters of illusion is beyond the skills of any one man—or woman.
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