Behold the brand new trailer for Marlowe, a brand new movie directed by Neil Jordan. Because the title suggests, the movie facilities round Philip Marlowe, the gumshoe detective that Raymond Chandler first unveiled in The Huge Sleep in 1939. Between then and now, Marlowe has been portrayed in movies by Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Elliott Gould, and James Garner. Now, Liam Neeson takes his flip. Right here’s how the producers pitch the movie:
MARLOWE, a gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930’s Los Angeles, facilities round a street-wise, down on his luck detective; Philip Marlowe, performed by Liam Neeson, who’s employed to seek out the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress (Diane Kruger), daughter of a widely known film star (Jessica Lange). The disappearance reveals an internet of lies, and shortly Marlowe is concerned in a harmful, lethal investigation the place everybody concerned has one thing to cover.
Marlowe arrives in theaters on February 15.
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