Guy Pearce is a star in someone else’s reasonably-priced car
If, like us, your solar plexus is still recovering from David Michôd’s crunching crime drama Animal Kingdom, you’ll be awaiting his next movie with a sense of anticipation. That film, The Rover, arrives later this summer and here’s a new featurette providing a clearer idea of what to expect. Click on the video below for a Guy Pearce-curated look at Roverworld.
Set in a Australia still off-kilter and adjusting to an unspecified apocalypse known as ‘the Collapse’, The Rover follows Pearce’s loner, Eric, as he pursues Scoot McNairy's small band of fugitives who have chanced upon his car and made off with it. That pursuit, executed with a relentlessness that makes a T-1000 look like a rambler out for an afternoon stroll, is dogged and violent. The naif-like Rey (Robert Pattinson) is his link to the car thieves and a strange, dangerous bond develops between them.
Eric’s mysterious motivation is just one of the themes explored by a film that looks like fitting neatly alongside the Mad Max movies in the grimy, startling Aussiepocalypse genre we’ve literally just invented.
The Rover arrives in the UK on August 15. Empire caught it in Cannes; click here for an early-look review.
from Empire News
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