Lucy Liu joins Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson in holiday action comedy Red One
The Prime Video movie will be directed by Jumanji's Jake Kasdan
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Prime Video’s forthcoming holiday action comedy Red One has added even more star power. Lucy Liu has joined Chris Evans, Dwayne Johnson, and Kiernan Shipka in the cast, per Deadline. Known for her roles in Charlie’s Angels and Kill Bill, she’s certainly familiar with filming crowd-pleasing action sequences.
Red One is being directed Jake Kasdan, who previously worked with Johnson on both Jumanji movies. The script was written by Chris Morgan, who has penned seven installments in the Fast And The Furious franchise.
Per Deadline’s report, Red One is “a globe-trotting, four-quadrant action-adventure comedy imagining a whole new universe to explore within the holiday genre” and “will stretch across multiple industries and businesses in the Amazon fold.” It is unclear what this will entail, but the possibilities are endless. Will Liu take over as the voice of Alexa? Is Evans going to make a cameo on The Boys? (Let’s be real, they’ll probably just slap a picture of The Rock on the shipping boxes or something.)
Holiday movies have moved far beyond Hallmark fare, with projects like Violent Night and Anna And The Apocalypse serving up action set pieces alongside the milk and cookies. Whatever angle Red One goes with, it seems like a ploy to put Evans in another memorable sweater.
Liu has focused more on TV in recent years, starring in Why Women Kill and seven seasons of Elementary. She was also featured in Set It Up, one of Netflix’s standout romantic comedies. Next up, she will appear as a voice actor in the animated Disney movie Strange World, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. In live-action, Liu will be the primary villain of Shazam! Fury Of The Gods alongside Helen Mirren; the DC sequel, also written by Morgan, was originally planned for release later this year but was pushed to March 2023.
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mmm.. when I’m deciding what movie to watch, I certainly need to know whether it appeals to all four quadrants or not!Then again, if Dwayne’s doing another ‘Red’ action movie, I expect Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot to turn up to the first day of shooting, looking vaguely confused.
“Four quadrants” is at this point essentially a synonym for “might be fun, but won’t be meaningful.”
When a movie is being advertised as ‘four quadrant’, I know it’s gotta be good.Throw in the corporate synergy and this Red One is a sure-fire winner!
That’s what happens when no one around here gives a shit about their jobs and copies and pastes press releases and hits publish.
I was wondering how long until this “Four Quadrant” jargon goes away.
When they discover a fifth quadrant? Maybe it’s one I’ve been in all along and isn’t well served by modern cinema?
The fifth quadrant is love.
You should drop that into your spec script for the Barbarella reboot.
But when will we finally get Lucy Liu in the highly anticipated sequel to Ecks vs. Sever?
..in its defense it was a great Game Boy Advance game .(it really was , it was that weird thing of Awful movie , but Fantastic tie in game , like Navy Seals or Hudson Hawk (both were box office stinkers, but had amazing video games made around them)
this finally made me google what ‘the 4 quadrants’ are and it’s just: women under 25, men under 25, women over 25, men over 25. that’s it. it’s just ‘most people’, arbitrarily divided by their relation to the age 25.
I hated my 25th year, being forced to compete in a grueling year-long tournament against all the other 25 year olds to see who would hold the title of Quadrant Prime for the year, all while having to put all my TV and movie watching on hold. I had to wait forever to find out what happened between Chandler and Monica!
Thank you for saving me from google clicks.That aside, the whole thing seems purely arbitrary and weird. So of course it’s a made-up thing that movie makers content creators care about.
I almost forgot she did anything besides fight with Bill Murray.
I thought “a globe-trotting, four-quadrant action-adventure comedy imagining a whole new universe to explore within the holiday genre” was exactly how Johnson described Jungle Cruise, but it turns out it’s still about this movie, just from October of last year. I vaguely recall making fun of this description as it applies to every boring looking thing Johnson makes and is probably how he talks about any project he’s in.