If you haven’t heard about director Tony Krantz‘s upcoming film, The Big Bang, get excited. The colorful neo-noir movie is loaded with names like Antonio Banderas as the private eye, William Fichtner as a cop, Snoop Dogg as the filmmaker, James Van Der Beek as the actor, Sam Elliot as the gazillionaire visionary, and Jimmi Simpson (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) as the physicist.
But the cast isn’t the only thing that has me excited about this movie. Judging by the below trailer and official synopsis, The Big Bang sprinkles some light science fiction elements into the classic noir formula, with scientists looking to recreate the big bang in a Large Hadron Collider-type scenario that may threaten more than just a hidden stash of diamonds. I haven’t heard anything about this project before today, but it has become one to look forward to. Judge for yourself below via CinemaBlend:
Synopsis:
Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator, Ned Cruz (Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend—and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she’s hiding. As Detective Cruz sets out to find her, the clues send him into the city’s seediest corners, from a Hollywood action star with a dirty little secret (Van Der Beek), to an enterprising porn producer who takes a personal interest in his own work (Snoop Dogg), and a kinky waitress with an unusual fetish for particle physics (Autumn Reeser). Lexie proves to be as elusive as she is beautiful and Cruz becomes obsessed with finding her. With time running out, Cruz discovers the trail leads to reclusive billionaire (Elliott), and his physicist (Simpson), intent on recreating The Big Bang underneath the New Mexico desert. Tailed by a trio of cops also looking to find the missing diamonds, and with the body count piling up, Cruz soon realizes that what appeared to be a standard missing person’s case is anything but, and could quite possibly bring about the end of the world as we know it.
Mystery? Intrigue? Particle physics? I’m hooked.
Anchor Bay is scheduled to release The Big Bang in select theaters on May 13.
Is it about time noir got another contemporary overhaul, or should we leave the best of the genre in the past?