Samuel L. Jackson to play retired version of pretty much every other Samuel L. Jackson character ever
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Samuel L. Jackson will be playing the “retired” version of any number of other badass Samuel L. Jackson roles pretty soon, with Deadline reporting that the veteran kicker of other people’s asses has signed on for a new, as-yet-untitled movie about a hitman. After a long career of killin’ folks, said purveyor of artisanal murders hangs up the tools with which he hits the men—until he gets dragged back into the game for one last job. Which yes, sounds a lot like the plot of multiple John Wick movies, except instead of canine vengeance, Jackson’s trained killer gets back to bloody basics because his idiot nephew gets in trouble with his former employers, and he has to either murder him, or bail him out.
This ode to blood-soaked avuncular ties is being directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, the same team that previously brought us movies like Focus and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. There’s no word yet on who’ll be stuck playing the nephew, though, who will presumably end up getting dragged all over town while their septuagenarian uncle kills a bunch of motherfuckers on their behalf. (Uncles/hitmen, are we right?)
Jackson himself remains one of the least-retired people in the entirety of Hollywood; he has a typically busy year planned for himself already, including co-starring in the upcoming The Banker, plus Ryan Reynolds sequel The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard and the new Saw movie, Spiral.
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(grand)motherfucker
He has a wallet that says “BAD KNEES”
That would be “BAD MOTHERFUCK’N KNEES”On the back it’s got a picture of a motherfuck’n snake on a motherfuck’n plane.And on the inside is a Capital One Credit card, because a man’s still got to pay for stuff no matter how big a bad ass he is.
He’s a (grand)monday-to-Friday!
This is the greatest melon farming video on the internet. I love the way he sells those truly dumb-ass lines.
“English, motherfucker! Could you speak it a little louder?”
The Grand Motherfucker Hotel
I really want to see Samuel L. Jackson cast in a film with Morgan Freeman, where Jackson plays a softly spoken, warm, wise old paternal figure and Freeman plays a constantly cursing, angry, hyper-cool ass-kicker.
Kind of like Tango and Cash, but much older and much, much cooler.
The Face-Off remake has found it’s stars!
Driving Mr. Freeman
Honestly the premise is flawed from the start with the notion that any of Jackson’s characters would make it to retirement.
Gone in 60 Seconds then?
Does he get too old for this shit?
Jackson’s trained killer gets back to bloody basics because his idiot nephew gets in trouble with his former employers, and he has to either murder him, or bail him out.I don’t want to sound mean, but shouldn’t that be grandnephew?Because the movie will get kind of sad if the idiot relative in question is in his 40s.
Fresh’s father Sam is now teaching chess to college students.
Flipper comes back from the dead as the Avenging Crackhead Angel and cleans up Harlem.The townie from School Daze is now a regional manager for KFC.
The arcade manager from Juice gets together with Q (Omar Epps) and they build the Black Chuck E. Cheese. Jim E. Cheddar. The houseman in Django was actually Nat Turner’s long-lost brother and he leads a revolt that frees Mississippi. You’re a hack. And that’s all you’ll ever be.
Try watching some movies/
Sort of racist, too, Chad.
I was going to say, “Oh, so it’s a sequel to The Hitman’s Bodyguard.” But nope, there’s already a different sequel to The Hitman’s Bodyguard in the works.
I refuse to believe that the Hitman’s Bodyguard isn’t a Fury/Wilson movie that took place in Jacksonville.
How is he going to play a guy who retired after being eaten by a motherfucking shark?
Its Finding Nemo adjacent
I’m getting too motherfucking old for this shit