Vince Vaughn Will Fight A ‘Brawl In Cell 99’ For ‘Bone Tomahawk’ Director S. Craig Zahler
Author, musician, and filmmakerS. CraigZahlerimpressed most critics with his directorial debut,Bone Tomahawk. Zahler’s cannibal Western, which starsKurt RussellandRichard Jenkins, may not have done stellar business at the box-office, but the movie has its fans, and perhapsVince Vaughnis one of them. The actor has just signed up to star in theBone Tomahawkdirector’s new movie,Brawl in Cell 99, which Zahler also wrote.
Learn more about the Vince VaughnBrawl in Cell 99movie below.
The Hollywood Reportersays Vaughn will play the lead inBrawl in Cell 99, continuing to do more dramatic work. The actor was most recently seen inTrue Detectiveseason two, which left a good amount of the show’s fans disappointed, andPeter Billingsley’sTerm Life, a movie that wasquietly releasedthis month.
Zahler — who, it must be said, is very good with titles — will begin production onBrawl in Cell 99towards the end of summer. Considering some of the most impressive parts ofBone Tomahawkinvolved brutal, unflinching violence, a more action-heavy movie, set in a prison, sounds like a promising followup from the director.
Here’s the plot synopsis forBrawl in Cell 99:
Zahler’s script centers on a former boxer (Vaughn) whose life is crumbling: He loses his job as an auto mechanic and his troubled marriage is about to expire. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work for an old buddy as a drug courier. This vocation improves his situation until the day he finds himself in a gunfight between a group of police officers and his own ruthless allies. When the smoke clears, the man finds himself in prison in a no-win situation as his enemies force him to commit acts of violence that turn the place into a savage battleground.
Vaughn definitely has the presence to play a believable action star, although it isn’t a genre we’ve seen the actor in many times, especially during the height of his success. Since a few of Vaughn’s recent comedies didn’t fully land with audiences, he’s been changing things up, appearing in productions maybe we wouldn’t have expected to see him in a few years ago. Vaughn just wrapped onMel Gibson’sHacksaw Ridge, an intriguing WWIIdramathat’ll likely get released around awards season later this year, andBrawl in Cell 99could, like Gibson’s film, show another side of the actor.
