A DREAM team of formidable female stars come together in a hard-driving original approach to the globe-trotting espionage genre in The 355.
When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, wild card CIA agent Mason “Mace” Brown, played by Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain, will need to join forces with a feisty band of sidekicks.
It is an all-star cast as Chastain joins Diane Kruger playing rival badass German agent Marie, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o as former MI6 ally and cutting-edge computer specialist Khadijah, and skilled
Colombian psychologist Graciela played by Oscar winner Penélope Cruz.
This impressive group embarks on a lethal, breakneck mission to retrieve this mysterious weapon, while also staying one-step ahead of a mysterious woman Lin Mi Sheng who is tracking their every move.
Sheng is played by Chinese A-lister Bingbing Fan who has featured in X-Men: Days of Future Past alongside plenty of Chinese language films making her one of the highest paid actresses in the world.
As the action rockets around the globe from the cafes of Paris to the markets of Morocco to the wealth and glamour of Shanghai, the quartet of women will forge a tenuous loyalty that could protect the world – or get them killed.
The film also stars Sebastian Stan of Avengers: Endgame and I, Tonya fame, and Edgar Ramírez who audiences will recognise from The Girl on the Train.
Filmmakers have created a particularly multicultural cast with American Chastain, German Kruger, Kenyan-Mexican Nyong’o, Spanish Cruz, Chinese Fan, Romanian-American Stan and Venezuelan Ramírez.
Talent from every corner of the planet is both a great move for diversity, and a great marketing move for global audiences.
The 355 is directed by genre-defying filmmaker Simon Kinberg who wrote, directed and produced Dark Phoenix, produced Deadpool and The Martian, and wrote and produced the X-Men films.
Kinberg worked alongside playwright Theresa Rebeck – the mind behind NBC’s Smash and 2017 film Trouble, while the film was produced by Chastain and Kelly Carmichael for Chastain’s Freckle Films and by Kinberg for his Genre Films.
Richard Hewitt executive produced this fun flick which is sure to take audiences on a journey.
Now showing at Swan Hill Showbiz Cinemas.
