Lift is not a popular movie. The genre’s hallmarks (a clever set (directed here via Kevin Hart), odds, and a delightfully evil target (ruthless banker Jorgensen, played by Jean Reno)) are provided, but, as Hart tells GamesRadar, there are a few more wild cards to help you stand out among your pairs of sticky fingers.
“Of course, the game in NFTs,” Hart says of how Lift detaches itself without delay from an increasingly popular heist genre in the first 10 minutes with an ultra-contemporary goal. “Also, the heist concept set in the air was an artistic concept, wasn’t it?We’re no strangers to heist videos right now, we’ve noticed a lot of them in our time, so when you can locate something to hold on to that adds the context of ‘new’, I think that’s fine. “
Hart continues, “Our writers and creators who were involved in this procedure did a smart job of giving us something else to hold on to and base the film on. The gold is in the plane in the sky and it has to fly and it’s there. A crazy plan attached? I think it’s all great.
Yes, that’s right: Cyrus, Hart’s handsome conversationalist, assembles an elite team to borrow gold from a plane while it’s still in the air.
Loki’s Gugu-Mbatha Raw joins him in this mile-high heist, who plays Interpol agent Abthrough, master of disguise Denton (Vincent D’Onofrio), helmsman Camila (Ursula Corbero), tech expert Mi-Sun (Yun Jee Kim). and the (and prankster) Magnus, played by Billy Magnussen.
Lift inevitably makes the most of its 30,000-foot sets, adding hands-on sets, specially designed to allow actors to make the most of their locations. All of this is reinforced by director F. Gary Gray, who has enjoyed the heist. films he directed The Italian Job in 2003, as well as The Fate of the Furious.
“Our director F. Gary Gray literally excels at the action,” says Mbatha-Raw. “They expanded, even from the script, the combat scenes. They were literally, literally, epic. From the original plane to the stealth plane, we literally had a lot of other things to do there. I mean, not to mess it up, they all had paints on the wires, the plane was moving, so it was a real challenge. It was literally great. “
Apart from the setting, much of the magic of Lift lies in the collision of its actors, from many other backgrounds and nationalities.
It’s a set that includes the Hollywood debut of South Korean singer Yun Jee Kim (“Vincent told me, ‘Yun Jee, you deserve to be where you are, amazing. Do your own thing,'” recalls Kim) and Spanish actress Ursula. . Corbero, who is no stranger to safes and lock combinations, played Tokyo in Netflix sensation Money Heist.
“When other people come in, we look at each other and say, ‘Oh my God, who is it?'” recalls D’Onofrio.
This unique mix of actors has, in turn, led to a sense of loose and unbridled creativity on set.
“That’s one of the things that the director, initially, when they gave us all there, asked us to bring as much as we could. So we felt we had permission to do it. Sometimes I was a little nervous about how far we were going to go. “” says D’Onofrio, adding, “We’ve all enjoyed movies. If it doesn’t work, it might not be in the movie. “
“I put a lot of effort into turning Magnus into a jerk. I was looking hard and [the director] wouldn’t let me,” laughs Magnussen.
While his antics on the mountain didn’t make the final cut, Magnussen was encouraged to bring more than was in the script to the role of Magnus riding a segway, blowing gum, and juggling sex toys.
“Originally on the page there wasn’t much there,” Magnussen explains. “But I was like, ‘What are the two farthest extremes of the character?’ He’s a genius and he’s messing around with stuff. Then I put in an eccentric personality. I just wanted to see those two worlds collide. I just like playing with things that are so far apart from each other.”
But the final word – and the last laugh – will inevitably go to Kevin Hart, who obviously harbors ambitions to become Hollywood’s next great action hero.
“I just need to say that, for the record, I wanted to do all the stunts in the sky because of my experience at the waterfall, which I’m sure you’re familiar with,” Hart jokes.
“I didn’t need to use movies for TV. Because [of the other actors] and their needs, I said “OK” and I’m going to move on to the TV movie. If it had been just me, I would have done it at the same time. “The same way Tom Cruise approached his work. “
Lift will stream on Netflix starting January 12. For more information, check out Netflix videos and shows.
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