Pedro Pascal’s New Film Seems Freaky as Hell

You’ll be able to’t watch the trailer for Pedro Pascal’s new movie Freaky Tales and never consider the Nineteen Nineties. Primarily that’s as a result of the film is set right on the cusp of the last decade, 1987, but additionally the thought of a violent, bizarre, sprawling single California metropolis almost-anthology brings to thoughts among the finest movies of the last decade: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.

Freaky Tales is written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, who made the wonderful Ryan Gosling movie Half Nelson and that tiny Brie Larson movie, Captain Marvel. So far as we will inform, there are not any superheroes on this movie, however there are many tremendous off-the-wall characters performed by the likes of Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn (additionally of Captain Marvel), Jay Ellis (High Gun: Maverick), Dominique Thorne (Ironheart herself), Jack Champion (Scream 6 and Avatar: The Means of Water), Ji-young Yoo (Till Daybreak), Angus Cloud (Euphoria, in his final function), and, apparently, Tom Hanks, although he’s not within the trailer. That’s about the one factor not on this trailer although. It’s fairly bonkers in the very best means.

You’ve received video shops, you’ve received robberies, you’ve received samurai swords, the Golden State Warriors, Pedro Freaking Pascal, and extra? Signal us the hell up.

What’s truly occurring right here although? We don’t know. Lionsgate describes the film as “a multi-track mixtape of colourful characters— an NBA star, a corrupt cop, a feminine rap duo, teen punks, neo-Nazis, and a debt collector—on a collision course in a fever dream of showdowns and battles.” It’s a “pulpy mix of explosive motion, edgy humor, gory kills, and sly twists and turns [that] makes for one wild journey.”

Sadly, for now, we’ve to take the studio’s phrase for it. However we do suppose all of the elements are right here for one thing particular. The movie premiered on the Sundance Film Festival in 2024 and received a really respectable 69% constructive critiques. That appears like a really applicable vary for a film like this. One thing that even for those who don’t adore it, you discover one thing to like about it. We’ll discover out extra when it hits theaters on April 4.

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