Mary Elizabeth Winstead has already explored her capacity that she is enough to play a lead role in an action film, a big thanks to her supporting role as Huntress in the tentpole of the DC comics “Birds of Prey” and now she is going to get the star vehicle that definitely she deserves with the assassin thriller of Netflix “Kate”.
She is performing in the opposite of Woody Harrelson. This movie has been helmed by French director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, famous to the US audience due to directing the “Snow White and Huntsman” sequel “The Huntsman: Winter’s War”.
Plot
It is based on a meticulous and preternaturally skilled Kate, who is the actual example of a finely trained assassin at the level of her game. After she blows an assignment by targeting a member of the yakuza in Tokyo, she comes to know that the brutally slow execution has poisoned her, and she has only 24 hours left to take the exact revenge on her killers.
After her body become deteriorates, Kate has formed an unlikely bond with the young daughter of one of her past victims. Kate is following the role of a burned assassin’s furious pursuit for one last self-appointed job.
In an interview, Winstead has told that this is a heartfelt assassin’s tale. In the film, we will also see many stunts of the actress, and the director has said that one face off of Winstead against the Japanese singer-songwriter Niyavi has literally proved very challenging.
He also said that the tough portion of the shooting is the fighting of Mary and Miyavi inside the apartment as they could not shoot it with double stunts, so they had to do this by themselves. They just thought that something bad would be going to happen.
Cast
It is featuring Tadanobu Asano, Michiel Huisman, and also Jun Kunimura. The director Nicolas-Trioyan has said that woody is woody. He is itself as an adventure confirmed, but he is also very determined and super easy to work with.
Release Date
Netflix will begin to stream “Kate” from 10th September. It also has confirmed that the film also will play in some selective theatres.
Here is the trailer:
