Can I just say…. wow! Gina Carano! Last night (Thursday, 5th January 2012), saw the Los Angeles premiere of the sure-to-be-awesome HAYWIRE, the new film from director Steven Soderbergh. The film arrives in cinemas in the UK on 18th January, and we cannot wait. The footage that we’ve seen before is literally not like anything ever, ever, ever seen before in terms of high-octane fisticuffs. Most of it is dished out by Gina, who I now love. It will be awesome.
Here’s the plot.
Soderbergh directs an all star cast in action thriller HAYWIRE, including mixed martial arts supremo Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, a highly-trained black ops specialist, contracted for hazardous covert missions by the US Government. When her paymaster’s point-man (Ewan McGregor) teams her with fellow agent (Channing Tatum) to extract a Chinese journalist held hostage in a Barcelona safe house, the mission swiftly unravels and she barely escapes with her life. During her next assignment in Dublin, with Irish assassin Paul (Michael Fassbender) Mallory is violently betrayed and pursued across the city by the local police and assorted ruthless hitmen.
Now the target of an international manhunt, spearheaded by the CIA official who hired her (Michael Douglas), Mallory realises she can trust no one and is forced to flee across the US from upstate New York to the New Mexico desert. There, she seeks refuge in the home of her ex-soldier father (Bill Paxton), but danger is not far behind her. As she confronts her heavily-armed pursuers, she begins to understand the cause of her betrayal, and the part played by a shadowy Spanish official (Antonio Banderas). Battling with her superiors to uncover the truth behind their deception, she sets out to exact revenge on those that want her dead.
Check out the images from the LA premiere, co-hosted by Playboy, in all of their glory below.
