'The Fugitive': Release date, plot, cast, trailer and everything you need to know about remake starring Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Hopkins who worked together on '24' are teaming up for the remake of the Harrison Ford 1993 film, 'The Fugitive'. The series will hit the upcoming mobile-based streaming service, Quibi, which is set to launch sometime in April 2020.
The 1993 film starred Tommy Lee Jones in addition to Ford and was in turn based on the 1960s TV series. The remake is expected to be updated to reflect the society of the 21st Century. Tommy Lee Jones won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie.
Release date
‘The Fugitive’ will release on August 3, only on Quibi.
Plot
In the original, Ford's Dr. Kimble is on the run from Jones's Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard after he is wrongly convicted of his own wife's death and escapes during prisoner transport.
In Quibi's remake, Sutherland and Boyd Holbrook will be playing Jones's and Ford's counterparts respectively. When a Los Angeles subway train is ripped through by a bomb, passenger Mike Ferro, a blue-collar worker, just wants to make sure his wife, Allison, and 10-year-old daughter, Pearl are safe.
But the misleading evidence and society's tendency for normal people to be citizen journalists through their "tweet-now, confirm-later" tactics make Mike look like he was responsible for the horrible act, creating a nightmare for him. Wrongfully and publicly accused, Mike must prove his innocence by finding the real culprit before the legendary cop heading the investigation can apprehend him.
Cast
Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland is best known for his roles on '24', 'Stand By Me', 'Phonebooth', and 'Designated Survivor'. He will play the role of Detective Clay Bryce who was originally US Deputy Marshall Samuel Gerard in the 1993 film. While Gerard is initially in pursuit of Ford's Kimble, he figures out that Kimble is trying to catch the real culprit and in the end, they work together.
Boyd Holbrook
Boyd Holbrook is an American actor best known for his work on 'Narcos', 'Hatfields & McCoys', and 'Gone Girl'. Holbrook will be playing the role of Mike Ferro based on Harrison Ford's Dr. Kimble from the 1993 film. While in the film Kimble's wife is murdered, Mike's wife's fate appears to be different. Mike is accused by a society that is quick to state things on social media without evidence and must find the real culprit behind the bomb before he is apprehended by Detective Bryce.
Executive Producer
Stephen Hopkins
Stephen Hopkins is a Jamaican-born British-Australian director and producer of film and television. He is best known for his work on '24', 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child', 'Predator 2', and 'House of Lies'. Hopkins will executive produce and direct the remake series.
Trailer
The trailer for ‘The Fugitive’ that dropped on Friday, July 24, sets the story up for us. Mike Ferro (Holbrook), who has been out of prison for six months, tells his parole officer Kevin Lawson (Malcolm Goodwin) -- who also happens to be his best friend -- that he would never again do something that would land him in prison.
But it seems that Mike tempted fate with those words. As he goes to a subway station, a bomb explodes. While he escapes unscathed, he becomes the unwitting suspect of a federal agency manhunt. Agent Clay Bryce (Sutherland) recognizes Mike from subway footage and targets him as the prime suspect for the bombing. With Mike’s face now plastered all over the internet, he has nowhere to go.
The rest of the trailer is a by-the-book thriller as Bryce and all of law enforcement chases Mike. But the stakes are higher than that. There is another bombing that’s about to happen. And it’s up to Mike to make sure that doesn’t happen -- after all, two bombings are worse than one and he is sure to be suspected for the second one as well.
With Bryce’s own subordinates questioning his dead certainty on Mike’s guilt, will the second bombing be prevented? Will Mike be able to prove his innocence in the face of such relentless heat? These are questions for the series to answer.
The trailer for ‘The Fugitive’ does not altogether look promising. In terms of story, it hardly offers anything new. And in terms of visuals, the whole thing looks somewhat shoddy. Quibi has so far delivered on a bunch of well-made (if not popular) shows. In that respect, ‘The Fugitive’, at least from the trailer, looks disappointingly subpar.
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