Lionsgate has released the very first trailer for the action-thriller Safe on this most auspicious Friday. At one point in the trailer, you see an ungodly number of bad guys – Triads, Russian gangsters, and corrupt cops – all lengthily arming themselves with all manner of firearms and you know, with a certainty, that Jason Statham's character is going to kill each and every one of them, no matter how many guns they have. At this point, it pretty much goes without saying that if Statham's in a movie, he'll be killing a bunch of people, and in Safe, he's an ex-cop whose killing motivation is the protection of a little girl who knows some valuable information. That seems to be more or less the extent of the story, but nobody sees a Statham picture for the story, they see it for his fists, who I believe are named "Rosie" and "Huntington-Whitely."
This trailer premiered at Yahoo! Movies, where you can see all the fistcuffs in HD, if you deign to do so.
My favorite thing about this trailer is actually it's enthusiastic use of the Trailer Voice early on. You just don't get enough of that these days.
Safe is written and directed by Boaz Yakin, whose rather eclectic directorial resume includes Fresh, Remember the Titans, and Uptown Girls. He was also developing a feature version of the television series Batman Beyond, which features an elderly Bruce Wayne mentoring a high-tech new Batman, for Warner Bros about a decade back. Jason Statham is obviously the lead here, but the cast includes journeymen like Robert John Burke, James Hong, Chris Sarandon, and Anson Mount.
Safe is set to hit theaters on March 2, 2012.
