Jackpot! Trailer Brings John Cena Back again to His Action Hero Era 

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John Cena is formally back again in his action hero period for his approaching movie, Jackpot!

Amazon MGM launched the 1st trailer for the comedy on Tuesday, July 2, which usually takes put in 2030 Los Angeles and follows Katie Kim (Awkwafina), an L.A. transplant who mistakenly finds herself with a profitable ticket to the newly-established “Grand Lottery,” in which any individual who kills the winner before sundown can lawfully assert their multibillion greenback jackpot. Cena portrays Noel Cassidy, an beginner lottery safety agent who will do every little thing in his power to preserve Katie alive in exchange for a piece of her prize.

The film is directed by Paul Feig, with a script penned by Rob Yescombe. Ayden Mayeri, Donald Elise Watkins, Sam Asghari, Murray Hill and Simu Liu also star in the motion-comedy, which hits Primary Movie on August 15.

Cena, who is a retired pro wrestler, is obviously channeling his roots for Jackpot!. The trailer characteristics the actor likely to desperate lengths to defend his consumer together with elaborate costumes, getaway autos and hand to hand combat.

“I rely on you. But that may possibly be mainly because you search like a bulldog a witch cast a spell on and turned into a human. You ever get that?” Awkwafina asks in the trailer, to which Cena hesitates right before replying, “Yes.”

While speaking to Enjoyment Weekly in Might, Feig, 61, explained the film as the Jackie Chan movie he generally “wished’ he could make.

“What I really like about Jackie Chan videos is that he’s a actual, everyman caught in a situation he doesn’t want to be in. He’s the grasp of panicked preventing compared to ‘I’m amazing, and I’m heading to get you on,’” he informed the outlet. “It’s not Bruce Lee. It is the ‘Get away from me, get absent from me’ style of motion. I never like mayhem and action for action’s sake. It normally has to advance the plot, be character-driven, and uncover the humor in individuals who aren’t typically in these scenarios having in these scenarios — and how they get them selves out of it.”

Cena, Feig stated, extra a complexity to the part that retained the character of Noel from starting to be way too stereotypical.

“John provides these types of a grounded, wonderful presence to what could have been a very macho, ’80s motion-star point,” he discussed. “The job was published to be a bit nerdy, and the 1st time I talked to him, he claimed, ‘Now, don’t assume you obtained to test to make me amazing or just about anything.’ So he’s this pretty sweet, nerdy, huge dude whose only objective in lifestyle is to guard his purchasers.”

As for Awkwafina, Feig reported that Katie is intended to be the point of view of the viewers. “When you’re watching this movie, you’re in her sneakers of all of a sudden currently being caught in this problem exactly where actually the full globe wishes to eliminate you,” he quipped.

Just one point Feig applied to assistance the film rise above the relaxation was prohibiting the use of guns in the Grand Lottery. Feig pointed out that he has “no interest” in “shooting” videos with tons of “gunplay,” rather focusing on “really primal survival” around currently being “toxically aggressive.”

“It is quite pleasurable and preposterous, but you’re nonetheless nervous for them for the reason that the stakes are real,” he ongoing. “But you’re in no way heading, like, ‘That’s upsetting.’ I want to hold an class about it all and make it enjoyment, but at the exact time, I really do not like motion comedies where the villain is silly, and every person is silly. The stakes have to be real. There has to be genuine risk. It has to be really plausible people, and then you set them in an serious condition.”

Jackpot! hits Key Video on August 15.