The craziest trailer of the year (so far) has landed and it’s Guns Akimbo. The Daniel Radcliffe starring flick also features an actress who made quite the splash this year in Samara Weaving (in the stellar Ready or Not) and the two—let’s just say, you’ve never seen either in a film like this … heck, you’ve never seen a film like this period!
Radcliffe is an online game developer who manages to piss off the whacked out nut job behind something called Skizm. It’s an online craze that has gone viral in every sense of the word. One day Radcliffe is living his normal life, someone knocks on his door, he decides not to answer it. They kick it in and when he comes to, he has handguns bolted to his hands. Try putting on your pants with that situation! Well, pretty much everything you were planning to do for the day is out the window, especially because Weaving’s Nix is a killer who seems to only have sights for you. Aren’t you lucky, Daniel!
This battle between Radcliffe and Weaving’s character is the latest for the underground virtual fight orchestrator Skizm and it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that the key to winning this game is kill or be killed. Of course, Radcliffe being a certain kind of persona, he’s going to try to negotiate and play to Weaving’s other senses. Let’s see how that goes.
The crazy looking flick debuts February 28 and is written and directed by Jason Lei Howden.
Here’s the official synopsis for Guns Akimbo:
Nerdy video game developer (Daniel Radcliffe) is a little too fond of stirring things up on the internet with his caustic, prodding, and antagonizing comments. One night, he makes the mistake of drunkenly dropping an inflammatory barb on a broadcast of Skizm, an illegal death-match fight club streamed live to the public. In response, Riktor (Ned Dennehy), the maniacal mastermind behind the channel, decides to force Miles’ hand (or hands, as it were) and have him join the “fun.” Miles wakes to find heavy pistols bolted into his bones, and learns Nix (Samara Weaving), the trigger-happy star of Skizm, is his first opponent
Gleefully echoing elements of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the Purge franchise, and videogames like Mortal Kombat, Guns Akimbo is hilariously dark, viciously violent, and potentially — chillingly — prescient. Director Jason Lei Howden (Deathgasm) foretells of a future that may soon await us: drone-captured live feeds, UFC-like competitions pushed to an extreme, and online streaming platforms used for gladiatorial entertainment all around the world. As Miles navigates the underworld of Skizm, the stakes — and the ratings — have never been higher.