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‘The Man Who Feels No Pain’ Trailer Breaks the Fourth Wall, Kicks a Ton of Ass [TIFF 18]
Hailing out of India, Vasan Bala is planning to kick Midnight Madness audience’s asses when The Man Who Feels No Pain World Premieres at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival.
In this Bollywood-infused action film, a young man quite literally born with the ability to feel no pain strikes out on a quest to vanquish 100 foes.
A trailer has been released that injects nostalgia using a VHS tape for subtitles, breaks the fourth wall, and kicks a whole lot of ass. This looks like the perfect Midnight Madness title that would be a perfect double bill with The Raid.
From director David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Fury), Heart of the Beast will hit theaters on September 25 from Paramount Pictures, and GQ shares first look images this week.
In the film, a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog attempt to return to civilization after suffering a catastrophic accident deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
Brad Pitt stars in the survival thriller Heart of the Beast, with J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Anna Lambe (“True Detective: Night Country”) also starring.
Cameron Alexander wrote the screenplay for Heart of the Beast. Academy Award winner Mauro Fiore (Avatar, Spider-Man: No Way Home) serves as director of photography.
“I’ll just be really honest: it made me cry,” Ayer tells GQ of the script. “Reading the script, it’s like a tone poem, in a sense. It’s so sparse—just a guy, a dog, mountains, and the calamities and triumphs that unfold, but what’s fascinating about the script is they’re constantly rescuing each other. It’s not like a guy and his pet—they felt like co-equals in this story. Brad wanted to be No. 2 on the call sheet, and rightly so. There was just something profound in the script. It felt like a study in grief, in healing, and of the human heart. So I had to do it.”
Ayer promises, “Don’t worry, the dog lives.”
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