Karen Gillan and Lena Headey are a kick-ass mother-daughter assassin duo in the Gunpowder Milkshake trailer
Film Features Gunpowder Milkshake
When Navot Papushado’s all-female ensemble assassin movie Gunpowder Milkshake was announced in 2019, it gave us exactly what we didn’t know we needed: Karen Gillan and Lena Headey as a mother-daughter killer duo. Even even better yet, some favorites are part of the cast, including Angela Bassett, Carla Gugino, and Michelle Yeoh. It definitely sounded cool as hell. And the trailer confirms it’s actually even better than we imagined.
As we see in the trailer, Sam (Gillian), was abandoned by her mom Scarlet (Headey)—a former assassin— as a kid. So Sam is taken in by The Firm, the crime syndicate her mom worked for, who train her to step into her mom’s role as a high-profile killer. But after a hit job goes wrong, Sam has to protect eight-year-old Emily (Chloe Coleman) from being murdered while tons of bad guys are trying to find them. Sam has to reunite with her mom and enlist her help to protect Emily and herself. It’s Birds Of Prey meets Baby Driver, and Gillian gets to sport a cool bomber jacket that gives her a Ryan Gosling in Drive vibe.
Earlier this month, Netflix got the U.S. distribution rights for Gunpowder Milkshake, and it hits the streaming site on July 14.
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yay! I feel we’ve seen so many daughter/father action stories where the mom is dead, this feels very refreshing for such a simple change.
I feel like John Wick has infected 80% of the movies in production.
You’re not wrong, but it’s a distinct improvement over the status quo ante, which was where every action movie was trying to be a joyless Taken retread.
Now every action movie is trying to be a pointless John Wick retread. So much better!
I mean, there have been maybe 10 Wick-esque movies in the seven years since the first one, so…no?
I really think this was one phone call away from existing in the John Wick Extended Universe.
Will be unsurprised if there’s a ridiculous mid-credits scene that does actually established it as the beginning of the JWEU.
True, but it was a venereal disease.
You’re just jealous because nobody has asked you to spend 6 months throwing Eurostrash stuntmen out a window in Zagreb yet.
Some of us don’t need to be asked, you know.
Given the hammers in use by Basset, I think The Raid II was it’s uncle.
Maybe, but if it’s going to give us Gillian and Heady as a mother/daughter assassin combo, then bring on the Wickapocalypse.
I saw your comment before actually watching the trailer… and you really weren’t kidding about how obviously they’re cribbing from that world. No dead dog though. Protecting a small child is more in the vein of Gloria/Leon: The Professional/Logan.
This is John Wick meets Birds of Prey and that’s fine because both of those were good so let’s see if some more good can come of it.
This doesn’t look like John Wick. This looks more in the same vein of Smokin’ Aces or Shoot ‘em Up.
There’s a small part of my brain that’s reminding me that Shoot ‘em Up’s trailer looked similarly fun and yet the movie itself wore out its one joke after about 15 minutes and somehow managed to waste the talents of Paul Giamatti, Clive Owen and Monica Bellucci……but I can’t say that this isn’t directly relevant to my interests at all possible levels, and dear god let this lead into Angela Bassett getting her own late-career action movie renaissance turn because we utterly need that.
The fact that Shoot ‘Em Up and Drive Angry (the latter of which ripped off the former’s sex scene) were both released theatrically instead of rotting in direct-to-DVD hell, were absolutely insane, and still managed to be fucking boring for so much of their runtime… guillotine.
My brother and I saw Drive Angry in 3D in the theaters. There was one old couple way back behind us, and we four braved it out in the gigantic theater. I snuck in a 6 pack and a flask of rotgut whiskey. It was one of the most fun times I’ve ever had in a theater. Peak William Fichtner! Empty bottles we accidentally kicked over rolling loudly down the angled floor between rows!
I was sober as a judge when I saw it… clearly you made the right choice.
I have a grave issue with your story- Fichtner is never not peaking.
Drive Angry was one of a handful of movies enhanced by 3D. Like, the only way to really see it.
Seriously. I saw Shoot Em Up in a theater full of rowdy friends who had all snuck in copious amounts of booze, and I was still bored and annoyed by it. A harsh lesson in the limits of intentional camp.
Shoot ‘Em Up and Drive Angry are loads of fucking fun.
I remember I was so bored during Shoot ‘Em Up that I whispered to my friend, “This better get stupid real fast.” That was right before the sex scene, so I got that wish at least. Still didn’t redeem it. The only thing I remember fondly is Owen’s rant about people not using their turn signals.
I think I must have enjoyed Shoot ‘Em Up a lot more than you, but it’s still very weird that this is another Assassin Needs To Protect a Kid Movie With Paul Giamatti As The Villain.
Shoot ‘Em Up worked just right for me. I preferred it to the Crank movies, which that director had also been involved with. I suppose it’s a bit of a Looney Tunes vs South Park thing.
Huh. I found Shoot Em Up to be delightfully ridiculous……
“…step into her mom’s role as a high-profile killer”Wouldn’t a high-profile be the exact opposite of what a professional assassin would want?
You have to have SOME kind of profile right? Or else how are people going to know they want to hire you?
I would assume the best option would be for EVERYONE (that cares) to know you are an assassin, but no one can prove it.
I think it means she kills high-profile people.
I think it means she kills high-profile people. Or just tall people.
yes. or just tall people with patrician noses.
>>>I think it means she kills high-profile people. >> Or just tall people……from the side.
Are there wide-profile assassins that only kill fat people?Asking for a friend.
You can be pretty well-known in your field and still be relatively unknown to the world at large. Like, I wouldn’t recognize a high-profile mathematician if they sat next to me at a bar, but a lot of other people would.
Don’t they all look like Stellan Skarsgård, though?
Love the look of KG in the long coat and hat.
Yeah, that got my attention too. Female Prisoner Scorpion reference, I’m hoping.
Hopefully the action is good cause the dialogue honestly sounds really bad and the plot is essentially John Wick but with a mother/daughter dynamic.
“You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books are the best weapons in the world. This room is the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!”
This is twice it was listed so it was an obvious decision to move Karen Gillian who’s the likelier ‘bigger’ name on AVC to the front…but…grammatically you need to reverse that, your statement implies the reverse in ages. Also, Headey outside of not playing a 2nd tier supporting cast member in the MCU has arguably had a bigger career thus far.Otherwise it looks like another action movie that’s doing nothing new, it seems to be euro-action so with some luck it’ll be slightly wittier than most US work.
Are they gonna throw in a “Oh yeah, and I was 13 when I gave birth to you” line to explain the abandonment deal? Too much to ask to just have them be sisters? I mean, the cast has every woman I love plus extended action sequences, so it’s not like I’m not gonna see it…
“Too much to ask to just have them be sisters?”
Well, see, the script is about a fucking MOTHER and a fucking DAUGHTER, so YES, what you’re asking is for a different script.
Or, you know, being an assassin does endanger one’s children.
Well this looks as unoriginal as can be. That being said, Bassett’s character is named Anna May, which is a great in-joke.
I was typing up a request for you to explain the joke when I got it.
Nebula and Sarah Connor teaming up! Or Ruby Roundhouse and Cerci? They will have to have an interesting dynamic.
It’s Birds Of Prey meets Baby Driver…I was actually thinking John Wick and “The Mandalorian”. They could’ve just called it Joan Wick: This is the Way.
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Magnum Lollipop!
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Bob Johnson!
Bob Johnson?
Bazooka Cooler!
Bomb Pop!Oh, wait.
Bullet Snickerdoodle!
Razor Candybar!
Knife Pudding!
“Karen Gillan and Lena Headey as a mother-daughter killer duo”
CUTE THING-BADASS THING.
aww man, tough to have a kid at 14 when you’re an international assassin
She went into that field to cover her childcare expenses.
Well James Bond had Indiana Jones when he was 11.
It was a different time back then…
I’ve seen porn mothers that have a larger age gap to their “daughter”.
Never heard of this before, and now I need to see this. I never imagined there would be a more kick-ass librarian than Jet Li in Black Mask but they’ve managed it. Leave it to Michelle Yeoh to beat him.
The most kick-ass is Conan the Librarian.
Didn’t Paul Giamatti’s character die at the end of Shoot ‘Em Up?
This movie looks like it has everything that I love: Karen Gillan, gratuitous violence
Does this clearly share a lot of DNA with John Wick? Yes.
Do I want to watch Karen Gillan and Lena Headey kill a bunch of goons, John Wick style? Also yes.
And the trailer suggests that there’s going to be a lot more silliness, as opposed to John Wick’s laconic stoicism. So if the action also delivers? Hell yes.
way too much info in that trailer. is Headey standing on a box in the top photo? no way she is as tall as Gillan. This looks like Harley Quinn meets Taken meets John Wick. Charlize Theron did this to near perfection in Atomic Blonde. My hope is that is more than blandly entertaining than Nobody is
While Theron was great in Atomic Blond, pretty much everything around that “one-shot” fight scene was boring as hell.
i found the plot to be kind of confusing and i agree the movie had draggy points which prevents this from being a great movie. but Theron proved she could own a bad ass spy role
It’s Birds of Prey meets John Wick meets Baby Driver!
A lot of this is going to come down to the fight choreography. The John Wick movies don’t work because of plot or character, they work because they nail action movie mechanics in ways that don’t really come across in a trailer. I’ll 100% watch this – and I’d personally love it if Karen Gillan lands an action franchise of her own – but there’s a very good chance that it will be a disappointment.
Sure.
I’m in.
The John Wick series becomes successful, and rather than come away with the lesson that they should take more chances on creative, unique action films, studios were just like “people fucking LOVE stories about elaborate assassin-based economies.”
Why is this genre packed with so many titles that sound like they were created by a random word generator?
Wait, Headey is my age. I am *not* old enough to be Amy Pond’s father.*Googles*…I still say it’s a stretch.
Looks like it’s trying way too hard.I’ll give this a chance. It has a lot of actors that I like in it, but I will be surprised if it isn’t mostly boring and stupid.
Birds of Prey being well received seems to have given people a bit more courage to green light projects in that vein.
Well, this looks fun enough. I don’t mind (too much) the John Wickification of any movie that features guns. And the cast is good. And what the heck, it’ll be on Netflix so I won’t have to think too much about how to access it. Sold!
There’s a party-pooper and trite grad school paper on entertainment about good looking women with guns, blowing people away, is an example of empowering feminism, but on male terms. Or something. I’m being facetious.
THE “GUN AS A PENIS” SECTION IS GOING TO BE UNINTENTIONALLY HILARIOUS.
I don’t want to know who the actors or actresses are in these films because they don’t matter. What matters is the director to see if he knows action and the stunt guys/gals. I’m tired of bad action choreography that looks cool to some guy who’s never seen an actual good action film.
Oh Jesus, what kind of SJW Mary Sue woke dumpster fire is this?
Today I learned that I really want to see Angela Bassett running amok with hammers. Huh.
This comes out on my birthday; happy birthday to me!