The doomsday satire Don’t Look Up, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio, is Netflix’s second highest-grossing film ever. Curiosity about the next project by director and author Adam McKay, who has been gathering ensembles full of Hollywood greats at least since The Big Short, was correspondingly high. This is also the case with Average Height, Average Build with Batman star Robert Pattinson and ex-Iron Man Robert Downey Jr.
Netflix snapped up the serial killer movie starring Robert Downey Jr
It has long been known that McKay is working on the film with Pattinson and Downey Jr., only where it will be released remains a secret. That has changed. Netflix bought the projectas the industry service Deadline reported exclusively on Sunday.
Pattinson plays a hitman, Downey Jr. wants to bust him
Average Height, Average Build isn’t a classic serial killer movie or Zodiac 2.0. Rather, the story sounds like a satire that takes the expression “getting away with murder” literally.
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Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson plays a serial killer who wants to pursue his sick hobby in peace. That’s why he hires a lobbyist (Amy Adams) to influence changes in the law in his favor. The goal: It’s supposed to be easier to get away with murder. The serial killer pretends to be an idealist with lofty goals, but conceals his true motives.
Deadline uses Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as a reference film, a classic by Frank Capra in which James Stewart, as an inexperienced boy scout, is made a senator by accident and fights against corruption in Washington. Robert Downey Jr. plays an ex-cop on the trail of the killer in the dark version of it.
For further occupation of this as “half comedy, half serial killer film” (THR ) features Danielle Deadwyler (Till) and Forest Whitaker (Rogue One) in previously unknown roles.
Adam McKay wrote the screenplay and is directing. According to THR, he offered the film to several studios and streaming services, but not all were convinced. On the one hand, this is due to the “current cinema landscape” in the USA, in which a black political comedy is difficult to sell, and on the other hand to the top-class and therefore expensive cast.
Netflix made this investment. The success of Don’t Look Up should have been a convincing argument. The 2021 film reportedly racked up around 360 million streaming hours in its first 28 days of release. Only Red Notice managed more with 364 million.
When is the film coming to Netflix?
Average Height, Average Build doesn’t have a Netflix release date yet. Adam McKay is aiming for a summer shoot, which suggests a release next year.
Robert Pattinson won’t appear in a movie again until 2024, in Oscar-winner Bong Joon-ho’s (Parasite) sci-fi flick Mickey 17.
On the other hand, we will see Robert Downey Jr. in the summer. Then, as a cast member in Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer, he will slip into the role of real-life businessman Lewis Strauss, who, as a member of the US Atomic Energy Commission, comes into conflict with the main character. Oppenheimer will be in German cinemas on July 20th.