We Die Young Trailer Detailed Explained

Jean-Claude Van Damme provides a dramatic flip as a soldier with PTSD within the trailer for We Die younger. The movie is primarily based on director Lior Geller's very own short Roads, which sets a Guinness world file for maximum awards received by a scholar movie at some stage in its run at the 2008 festival circuit. For his characteristic-duration variation, Geller swaps his quick film's Israeli backdrop for Washington D.C., but continues the tale of a teenaged boy who works for a dangerous drug lord and seeks assistance from a traumatized veteran, after his younger brother is hired to work for the identical gang.

The concern count number offers We Die younger a touch more dramatic heft than Van Damme's latest direct to video offerings and shows him attempting his hand at something exclusive, much like he did on his cult meta-dramedy JCVD and Amazon's canceled Jean-Claude Van Johnson. And it is no twist of fate that Van Damme is silent throughout the film's trailer, both. In step with Geller, his character is primarily based on a soldier he knew who misplaced the capability to speak, following existence-converting damage at the battlefield.

We Die young is presently scheduled to ideal in select theaters and on call for in early March. The movie's leads are joined through an assisting ensemble that consists of David Castañeda - who stars in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy comedian ebook tv collection subsequent month - in addition to as soon as Upon a Time's Joana Metrass. You can watch the trailer below, then take a look at out the film's synopsis.

After quick setting, the tone with a flashback to the incident that left Daniel (Van Damme) permanently broken, the trailer shifts into voiceover narration from Lucas (Elijah Rodriguez), as he explains the fine details of existence in D.C. And the metropolis's thriving crook underbelly. It's most effective downhill from there, as the trailer shows Lucas' younger brother Miguel (Nicholas Sean Johnny) getting pulled into the same nightmarish experience as his sibling, prompting Daniel to try and do something about it.

By means of converting the placing from Lod (in Roads) to Washington D.C., We Die younger dangers losing something in translation, as far as its tale's social context and political subtext are concerned. Further, Van Damme's individual may want to come off feeling like a white savior within the film, if his arc is not handled effectively. The ones demanding situations apart, it's proper to see the movie intends to say something meaningful, even as additionally allowing Van Damme to keep mixing matters at this stage in his career.