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Director Francis Lawrence took to IGN in recent weeks to discuss his latest thriller, Red Sparrow, which opens on March 2 from 20th Century Fox. In it, he discusses a range of things that came into adapting Jason Matthew's spy novel from reuniting once more with Hunger Games franchise star Jennifer Lawrence, to designing the role she portrays on film in a way that cinematically works.
Feel free to read all about it and more while you are more than welcome to bask deeper in the narrative set forth in the latest trailer now out ahead of its March 2 release. Entering the world of espionage, seduction and danger brings us in the throes of Lawrence's incarnation of Dominika Egorova, a former prima ballerina who finds her being drafted against her will into a secret government program among other assassins in training for the Russian Government.
Dominika Egorova is many things.
A devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at all costs.
A prima ballerina whose ferocity has pushed her body and mind to the absolute limit.
A master of seductive and manipulative combat.
When she suffers a career-ending injury, Dominika and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future. That is why she finds herself manipulated into becoming the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons. After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow the program has ever produced. Dominika must now reconcile the person she was with the power she now commands, with her own life and everyone she cares about at risk, including an American CIA agent who tries to convince her he is the only person she can trust.
The trailer delves even further into the story as we meet the role of Edgerton and how he plays into the fluctuating events that ensue upheaval with every move Egorova hopes to will get her out of the program for good. Also starring are Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeremy Irons from a script by Justin Haythe, and much to the delight of moviegoers, an R-rating thus confirmed by IGN with a story that weighs much more on dramatic terms to accomodate the seldom bigger stunts and violence.
via IGN: "The tone that I saw in the book was something that was really exciting to me," Lawrence said, "and the thing that I feel very lucky about is that the studio - when I sat down with the studio and with the producers, they all embraced it, they all said yes to it, as did Jen. And we kind of went for it, and there were no sort of blocks in any way from the studio side. Everybody embraced it going forward and have until the end, which is fantastic."
He continues in part: "...The spy genre is something quite well-worn, and so one of the aspects that excited me was the real personal, emotional, visceral story that this film has. But it was also the tone. And then there’s a violence to it, there’s a perversity to it, there’s a sexuality to it, there is a slow burn aspect to it. It’s not an action film, it really is a thriller. It’s filled with intrigue. And that was something that was really exciting to me. You know, I always like trying to do something different. I don’t want to do the same thing over and over again. So it was a fun world, specifically, tonally, to explore for me, and I think also for Jen. And really exciting for me, now, having made four films with her, to do something completely different from the world of Panem and Katniss."
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