Signature Entertainment has premiered a debut clip from the upcoming Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins with Vinnie Jones playing fearsome doorman Bernard O’Mahoney. The film is released in UK cinemas from 3rd September.
The film is described as a brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
Keith Allen appears as nightclub owner Dave Simms, with the likes of Craig Fairbrass, P.H.Moriarty, Billy Murray, Michelle Collins, George Russo, and Roland Manookian,also lining up amongst the cast.
Here’s the synopsis:
When a down-on-his-luck Tony Tucker lands a job as a nightclub doorman after saving the owner’s grandson, he will do whatever it takes to rise to the top of the game. Teaming up with Essex heavyweight Bernard O’Mahoney at the height of the 1980s rave scene, Tucker could do no wrong.
A voracious appetite for money, drugs, and a glamorous lifestyle soon develops, fueling his growingly audacious ventures and seeing him join forces with Pat Tate and Craig Rolfe to capitalise on the drug-boom. Packed with fights, revenges, and explosions, the ultimate origin story brings Rise of the Footsoldier full circle, and tackles many of the franchise’s previously unanswered questions.
Here’s the new clip.
