30 Days of NightandOppenheimerstarJosh Hartnetttransforms into our new favorite action hero in the first trailer for this year’sFight or Flight. Swapping out his familiar dark hair for a blonde do, as well as demonstrating the kind of skills that would make Liam Neeson jealous,Fight or Flightsees Hartnett taking the lead as an assassin who finds himself tasked with protecting a target. While it should have been an easy assignment, he wasn’t counting on being trapped on a plane with various other assassins who have been tasked to kill them. Hartnett just loves getting trapped in impossible situations these days.You can check out the action-packed trailer forFight or Flightbelow.
Fight or Flightis directed by James Madigan (Runaways) and finds Hartnett facing off against several familiar faces in this twist on Brad Pitt’s 2022 action outingBullet Train.Bullet Plane, if you will. The cast includes Charithra Chandran (Bridgerton) as the mysterious target that Hartnett’s assassin is tasked with protecting, with Julian Kostov (Shadow and Bone), Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) and Marko Zaror (John Wick: Chapter 4) as the various killers assigned with putting some added pressure on Hartnett’s enigmatic mercenary.
Fight or Flightlooks to be another shrewd move from Hartnett. After seeing his career skyrocket in the early 2000s, Hartnett decided to take a 15-month break from Hollywood after struggling with the pressures of fame and questions about what he truly wanted from his career. Now, the popular actor is well and truly back, with Hartnett delivering a stellar supporting performance in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winningOppenheimerand taking the lead as a serial killer in an impossible situationin director M. Night Shyamalan’sTrap. CouldFight or Flightcarve out a new legacy for the actor as an action movie superstar? It certainly looks that way.
Josh Hartnett Is Committed to the Action in ‘Fight or Flight’
Despite his long-running Hollywood career, which has seen him leap acrossgenres from comedy to drama to horror, Josh Hartnett saysFight or Flightis by far one of his most challenging roles to date. Hartnett has partaken in action movies before, starring alongsideJason Statham inWrath of ManandOperation Fortune: Ruse de Guerreand Bruce Willis inLucky Number Slevin, but the actor previously toldColliderthat, due to his age, the genre has become a lot more challenging. Especially when you’re doing your own stunts.
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The movie boasts a score of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.
“I’ve got a film coming out called Fight or Flight, where I do my own stunts. I’m 46. I was 45 when I shot it. It’s different from when you’re in your twenties. We had a very long shot in that film where I am fighting an enormous amount of bad guys on a plane, in a close-counter environment, and using things off the plane to fight them. You just don’t recover the way you used to, you know? So, I found that to be the toughest physical thing I’ve ever had to do.”
Fight or Flightis all set to premiere on Sky Cinema in February 2025, and will be released in select theaters around the same time.
