Bob Odenkirk's NORMAL Gets December 11 Japan Release
The Japan release puts a Kolstad-scripted, Wheatley-directed action film with Odenkirk producing and co-writing the story into a market that already knows the John Wick and Nobody names attached to it.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
The action film NORMAL, starring Bob Odenkirk, is confirmed for a December 11 release in Japan, with a trailer and poster released alongside the announcement. Derek Kolstad wrote the script and Ben Wheatley directed. Odenkirk plays Ulysses, a temporary sheriff in a rural town who learns a secret about the town after a bank robbery and is attacked by all 1,890 townspeople. Henry Winkler, Lena Headey, and Brendan Fletcher also star.
The film is set in Normal, a rural town in the United States, where a bank robbery leads the temporary sheriff Ulysses to uncover a secret about the town. After that, all 1,890 residents turn on him at once, and he fights back.
Odenkirk co-wrote the original story and produced the film with Kolstad. Ben Wheatley directed, and the cast includes Henry Winkler, Lena Headey, and Brendan Fletcher. The trailer shows the town's residents, from sheriff's deputies to the hardware store owner to the grandmother at the handicraft shop, attacking Ulysses.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Cinema Today 普通の保安官が戦闘能力を解放し1,890人と死闘！『NORMAL／ノーマル』日本公開決定