Colin Farrell will play the lead in a new thriller from the writer of John Wick.
Colin Farrell hasn’t made too many action movies, and the ones he has made are sort of action adjacent. Daredevil and The Batman are cape flicks, Minority Report is sci-fi, and most of the rest that might fit the category are crime dramas. You have to go all the way back to 2003’s little-remembered S.W.A.T. for a pure action movie in the filmography of Castleknock’s favourite son.
But there comes a time in almost every middle-aged serious actor’s life when he muses to himself, “Maybe I should do an action movie?”. It’s all Liam Neeson‘s fault, and now the 49-year-old Farrell has heard the siren call of the geriactioner.
Ah, that’s a little mean, but he’s only seven years shy of Neeson in Taken. He is making an action movie, though, with The Hollywood Reporter reportin’ that he’s signed on to play the lead in Ordained, a new action thriller written by Derek Kolstadt (John Wick) and produced by Joe and Anthony Russo (a ton of Marvel stuff, obviously) through their ASBO production shingle.
Per the Reporter:
Farrell will star as Father Roy Craig, a priest who performs last rites on a mob boss who miraculously survives — but not before confessing his crimes to the father. Soon after, Father Roy finds himself targeted by hitmen, corrupt cops and gangsters — all sent by the mob boss who wants to silence him. But Father Roy secretly has a violent past that makes him a more dangerous target than anyone imagines. (Luckily for his adversaries, he does follow the commandant Thou Shall Not Kill.)
Ordained is based on a yet-to-be-released comic series of the same title by writer Robert Venditti, illustrator Trevor Hairsine and colorist Dave Stewart, which debuts on December 10 from publisher Bad Idea. This isn’t the first time Venditti has been adapted for the screen, either. His comic The Surrogates was adapted into the 2009 sci-fi thriller Surrogates starring Bruce Willis, and that was a solid three stars. Remember Surrogates? Or S.W.A.T.?
Yeah, nobody remembers S.W.A.T.
No word as to who’s directing this thing at the moment, but for now this sounds like a pretty good time.
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