New ‘Sicario’ trailer shows tense standoff on El Paso-Juarez bridge, NY Times interviews stars
A new trailer has been released for the Hollywood film “Sicario” that is set in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Sicario is Spanish for hitman.
The new trailer is an extended clip that shows FBI agents in a standoff with gunmen on an international bridge between El Paso and Juarez with an uncertain outcome. Watch the new trailer at http://bit.ly/1VJw86Q
The film stars Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin and opens Sept. 18 and has been named one of the 30 most anticipated films of Oscar season, according to Variety.
The film and its stars received a seven-minute standing ovation after it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival this past spring.
All three actors, the film’s director, and screenplay writer were interviewed for a feature in the New York Times.
“I saw it as a war movie,” Taylor Sheridan, the film’s screenplay writer, told the New York Times. “And at some point it becomes not so much what was the war about, but should we be fighting it this way?”
Read the full New York Times article at http://nyti.ms/1OsY0b9
Sheridan told the Los Angeles Times he wrote the story with the goal of upending preconceived notions about the war on drugs — a purely evil cartel on the one hand and right-minded Americans trying to stop them on the other.
“I wanted to explore the modern American frontier and what it looks like,” Sheridan told the LA Times. “A lot of people call it a cartel movie. But the cartels of course are just a progression of demand. If you remove them all tomorrow, identical entities would pop up in their place.”
Read the full Los Angeles Times article at http://lat.ms/1KXuefK
More On “Sicario”
Watch Deadline Hollywood’s interviews with Blunt, Del Toro, Brolin, and the director at http://bit.ly/1Ot0TbV
Watch 1st official trailer at http://bit.ly/1HLOXfP
Watch 2nd official trailer at http://bit.ly/1UDcJ54
Featurette on Blunt’s character, Kate Macer http://bit.ly/1OsZF0s
Clip of raid in film http://bit.ly/1NYh6c7
While the movie is set in El Paso and Juarez it was filmed in Albuquerque, according to the movie’s IMDB page.
Below is the synopsis of the film from the official website. “In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent Kate (Blunt) is enlisted by an elite government task force official (Brolin) to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past (Del Toro), the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive.” “Sicario” is a Lionsgate presentation, a Black Label Media presentation, a Thunder Road production, a Denis Villeneuve film.
