John Cena is officially back in his action hero era for his upcoming movie, Jackpot!
Amazon MGM launched the first trailer for the comedy on Tuesday, July 2, which takes place in 2030 Los Angeles and follows Katie Kim (Awkwafina), an L.A. transplant who mistakenly reveals herself with a winning ticket to the newly-established “Grand Lottery,” wherein any individual who kills the winner before sundown can legally declare their multibillion buck jackpot. Cena portrays Noel Cassidy, an novice lottery protection agent who will do the entirety in his power to keep Katie alive in exchange for a piece of her prize.
The film is directed by Paul Feig, with a script written through Rob Yescombe. Ayden Mayeri, Donald Elise Watkins, Sam Asghari, Murray Hill and Simu Liu also megastar within the action-comedy, which hits Prime Video on August 15.
Cena, who's a retired professional wrestler, is clearly channeling his roots for Jackpot!. The trailer options the actor going to desperate lengths to offer protection to his client including elaborate costumes, getaway vehicles and hand to hand fight.
“I believe you. But that may well be because you seem like a bulldog a witch cast a spell on and became a human. You ever get that?” Awkwafina asks in the trailer, to which Cena hesitates before replying, “Yes.”
While speaking to Entertainment Weekly in May, Feig, 61, described the movie because the Jackie Chan movie he at all times “wanted’ he could make.
“What I really like about Jackie Chan movies is that he’s an actual, everyman stuck in a state of affairs he doesn’t want to be in. He’s the master of panicked preventing as opposed to ‘I’m cool, and I’m going to take you on,’” he informed the outlet. “It’s no longer Bruce Lee. It’s the ‘Get away from me, break out from me’ form of action. I don’t like mayhem and action for action’s sake. It always has to advance the plot, be character-driven, and in finding the humor in individuals who aren’t usually in these scenarios stepping into these eventualities — and the way they get themselves out of it.”
Cena, Feig stated, added a complexity to the position that stored the character of Noel from changing into too stereotypical.
“John brings such a grounded, pretty presence to what could have been a very macho, ’80s action-star factor,” he defined. “The role was written to be moderately nerdy, and the first time I talked to him, he mentioned, ‘Now, don’t think you were given to try to make me cool or anything.’ So he’s this very candy, nerdy, large guy whose best function in lifestyles is to offer protection to his shoppers.”
As for Awkwafina, Feig stated that Katie is meant to be the perspective of the target market. “When you’re staring at this film, you’re in her footwear of all of sudden being stuck in this state of affairs where literally all the world needs to kill you,” he quipped.
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One thing Feig applied to help the movie upward thrust above the remainder was once prohibiting the usage of weapons in the Grand Lottery. Feig noted that he has “no pastime” in “shooting” motion pictures with a whole lot of “gunplay,” as an alternative that specialize in “in point of fact primal survival” over being “toxically competitive.”
“It may be very amusing and ridiculous, but you’re still worried for them for the reason that stakes are actual,” he endured. “But you’re by no means going, like, ‘That’s scary.’ I want to keep an magnificence about all of it and make it a laugh, however on the similar time, I don’t like action comedies where the villain is silly, and everybody is foolish. The stakes have to be actual. There has to be real threat. It has to be very believable characters, and then you definitely put them in an excessive state of affairs.”
Jackpot! hits Prime Video on August 15.
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