Post Malone is Mark Wahlberg’s prison rival in the Spenser Confidential trailer
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Netflix continues its foray into big-name action movies: Following the execrable Michael Bay production 6 Underground comes Spenser Confidential, Peter Berg’s attempt at a gritty, ’70s-style cop production, based on the novel Wonderland by Ace Atkins, which is in turn based on Robert B. Parker’s series of Spenser detective novels (check your dad’s bookshelf). Netflix is billing this movie as an “action-comedy.”
Berg favorite Mark Wahlberg plays Spenser, a cop who got framed and sent to prison trying to take down a dirty-cop-fueled drug cartel. Now he’s out, and guess what: Everyone’s after him. At least he has Alan Arkin on his side as his old boxing mentor, along with Winston Duke as his sidekick Hawk. Post Malone makes his film debut as Spenser’s rival in the big house, who drops lines like, “You’re about to walk barefoot through the gates of hell.” Plus, Wahlberg gets to crash cars all around his native beloved Boston.
You can check it out for yourself when Spenser Confidential drops on March 6.
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That looks terrible. But I am 100% going to watch it.
well now I want to see a DS9 reboot where Winston Duke plays Sisko
My mother loved some Spencer for Hire back in the day only for Avery Brooks. Nothing like being ten years old and hearing your mom purr like a cat every time Hawk came on the screen. yikes
My mom was the same way with Cagney & Lacey. We didn’t find out until years later what that meant.
My mothers obsession was Remington Steele.
Ditto. I learned far too young that my mother’s ‘hall pass’ was Pierce Brosnan and my father’s was Linda Carter while we watched episodes of Remington Steele and Wonder Woman.
Linda Carter was your dad’s hall pass? No wonder.
I have a friend who told me his mom watched American Ninja with him because she was into Michael Dudikoff in a barely appropriate way.
My mom was all over Magnum PI, presumably for the supporting team, and not Tom Selleck.
Higgins fucks, y’all.
Starred exclusively for “Higgins fucks”.
My mom was like that about Too Tall Jones of the ‘70s Dallas Cowboys and Clint Eastwood in the tv show Rawhide (the way she said “Rowdy Yates” made me very uncomfortable).
I swear this was sold to Netflix from Lionsgate or STX. This was not made for Netflix.
I assume it was heavily discounted.
Hawk would be offended if he heard you refer to him as a “sidekick.” He’s an “associate.”
Post Malone, Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg? Thank you, Netfilx, for putting all that in this movie so that I won’t run in to it elsewhere.
On the other hand…Marc Maron?
And Alan Arkin and Winston Duke. Not a bad cast.
Well….. Wahlberg is from Boston and so was Spenser… That aside, there is nothing of Spenser, that I can see, in this trailer. Also, Hawk, a character who would make Shaft look like a wallflower nerd, is not even remotely represented in this slovenly version. I don’t get the point of connecting it to Spenser, if you weren’t gonna try to get the feel of – y’know- Spenser.I mean, it looks fine as a buddy action movie, but.
Could Wahlberg be worse than Joe Mantegna as Spenser? I’d at least believe that Wahlberg can fight someone. I’m always going to imagine Avery Brooks as Hawk when I read those books, but considering Hawk’s description in the source material you’d basically need someone with Michael B. Jordan’s physique from Creed or Black Panther to even come close.
Damn. I forgot about the Mantegna version.
Wahlberg is from Boston but Spenser is a transplant (the character is
from one of the Mountain states) so there is not even that (if that is what you meant). Makes me miss even the A&E versions of the character.
I did, indeed, mean that. Laramie, Wyoming….I missed that when I read those 40 or 50 books, somehow.
He spent some of his childhood in Wyoming; I don’t think Parker ever specified when Spenser moved to Boston.
I would guess things have had to been changed (or just not brought up again) because of the characters not really being allowed to age but originally it was raised by his father and uncles in Wyoming*, then serving in Korea, then the Mass State Troopers, finally private eye.
Was he with the State Police during his time as an investigator for the Sussex DA’s office? Not sure how Mass. law enforcement worked/works.
Yes, Spenser — as played by Robert Urich— was a classic Philp Marlowe type PI: tough, a bit cynical, but an honorable person at heart. Brooks’ Hawk had mystique, intensity and his own code — you weren’t always sure he’d be Spenser’s ally. The show was low key, terse and humor — if present– was understated. I like Duke and have seen him bring an intensity similar to Brooks in his Persons of Interest character. I even think Wahlberg can be good in certain roles. But this doesn’t feel like Spenser for Hire.
And the girlfriend is a 180 from Susan.
Looks like big dumb fun. I’m in.I’m just going to pretend that it has nothing to do with the Robert B Parker novels, as it seems like they’re not doing much beyond using the names. Side note, though: I liked the Spenser novels, and the tv show (which was one of the first network shows to show people actually dying in the weekly gunfights), but was the world clamoring for more of this IP?
Maybe the Widow Parker made some bad deals on licensing Parker’s various series to other authors.
Now that it occurs to me, it’s kind of surprising Mark Wahlberg hasn’t done a Spenser revival yet.I dunno who I’d pick for Hawk, but that ain’t it. Idris Elba?
“You’re about to walk barefoot through the gates of hell.”
Adding that to my wedding vows.
Post Malone: The celebrity you’d least want making your sandwich.
Post Malone is Hep C, made sentient.
God I wish post malone was named that because he’s Karl Malone with that “disease” Michael Jackson had. But it also makes you a foot smaller and causes tattoo cravings. But there’s no God so its just the world’s rubik’s cube of crappiness making another turn.
Peter Berg. Isn’t he the guy that gave us Rhianna in BATTLESHIP? Now there was a performance. “Fire!” was never said with such passion.
Mark Wahlberg, you are no Robert Urich.
Truer words.
I don’t know if they’re directly responsible, but I’ll forever be thankful for that movie because they got him to fix his puke worthy teeth ^^
“You’re about to walk barefoot through the gates of hell.”I wish I could get paid to write things that bad.