When Pulver is contacted by his ex-wife Jemma Wells (Naomi Watts), who he’d apparently thought was dead, Pulver is convinced to rally and figure out a way to survive long enough to escape the loop. That’s going to require him to evade a group of idiosyncratic assassins and confront Clive Ventor (Mel Gibson), the man in charge of a government program that might hold the key to why Pulver’s gotten stuck in the first place, and that in turn means he gets to be chopped up, shot, exploded, and dismembered a few dozen more times. In one movie, Grillo may be preparing to overthrow Sean Bean for the title of the most chronically killed actor in modern cinema.
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Under the working title Continue, Boss Level has been in the works off and on since early 2012, with Frank Grillo attached to the project from the start. The film initially seemed to have hit an unspecified snag later that year, with Carnahan posting a couple of tweets showing off Grillo’s early screen tests in a “what could have been” sort of way. However, the film wasn’t actually ever canceled and eventually started principal filming in and around Atlanta in mid-2018. It then proceeded to miss its initial release date in 2019 before Hulu acquired its distribution rights last November.
In addition to Grillo, Watts, and Gibson, the film stars Hong Kong action legend Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). The peculiar band of assassins who are after Pulver include Selina Lo, Quinton Jackson, Rashad Evans, and Rob Gronkowski, with Ken Jeong in a blink-and-miss-it part as a chef. Carnahan directs from his own screenplay, co-written by Chris and Eddie Borey (the little-known 2013 murder mystery Open Grave).
Boss Level is scheduled for release on March 5 on Hulu.
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