The Russo Brothers (and Tom Holland's bangs) are back in the first tease for Apple TV+'s Cherry
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It’s been nearly two years since the arrival of Avengers: Endgame, the film that saw writers and directors Joe and Anthony Russo land—to generally rave acclaim—the ending of a story that they and numerous others had spent the better part of a decade, untold hours of human creativity, and ginormous, roiling cauldrons of money telling. It was, by any metric, a career-topping achievement, which is probably a little bit worrying when you’d still like to, y’know, continue to have a career.
Now, after a brief, extremely explicable break, the Russos are back, with Apple TV+ releasing the first teaser today for their first film since Endgame wrapped, an adaptation of Nico Walker’s 2018 crime novel Cherry. But while many of the hallmarks of the Russo Style are seemingly absent from the short (weirdly truncated) clip—with nary a magic glove or Important Rock in sight—they do have one familiar face on hand. (And one slightly less familiar haircut.)
Yep, that’s Tom Holland as a young man signing up for the U.S. military, a career choice that will presumably keep him in good health and stand—wait, no, whoops, we just took a peek at the book’s Wikipedia summary, and it decidedly will not. In any case, it’s interesting as always to see Holland play against type (as he did last year, with Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time.) From the tease, it’s a bit hard to pin down the film’s tone, but we’ll probably see more as the movie’s 2021 release date creeps closer.
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To think, their most famous film before the MCU was You, Me, and Dupree.
You, Me, and Dupree sadly remains cinema’s only adaptation of a Steely Dan song. Wish the Russos would concentrate on building out the Steely Dan cinematic universe, but hopefully this turns out to be good.
we’ll probably see more as the movie’s 2021 release date creeps closer.Which is when? Really the only info I wanted.
Probably still undecided at this point. I mean, they could pick a date but who knows how many times they’d have to move it.
Its Apple TV, why would they need to move the release date?
Right, of course. I was still thinking olden times, in a theatre.
February 26 limited theatrical release, March 12 on Apple TV+.
Honest question, are the Russos capable of making a non-Marvel film without casting anyone from their Marvel films?
I mean, they’ve only made two non-Marvel films since Endgame. That’s a pretty small sample size. And even if they keep it up forever, what difference does it make?Lots of directors have a stable of actors they keep in rotation, like Tarantino and Whedon.
They also have The Gray Man on the table too.
welcome to mooseport had none of them
I should have clarified to mean films since the Avengers concluded. I’m guessing maybe they want to attract all the fans of the actors who play Captain America, Thor, Spider-Man to their post-Marvel endeavors.
If you got a job that involved a bunch of famous actors, and you had the ability to deliver them a script that would get one of them involved… would you not take it?
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