Releasing August 22nd in theaters nationwide Relay starring Riz Ahmed. The suspense drama, directed by David Mackenzie, also features Lily James and Sam Worthington.
In Relay, Riz Ahmed plays a world-class “fixer” who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and always follows an exacting set of rules. However, when a message arrives one day from a potential client (Lily James), who needs his protection to stay alive, the rules quickly change.
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In a statement, director David Mackenzie said, “Relay is a tense New York thriller which is very much of the now but has echoes of the great soulful paranoid thrillers of the ’70s. It’s a film about an outsider trying to do the right thing, it’s about loneliness and the raw, unsung bravery of whistleblowers who have to stand up to the powerful and dangerous forces trying to prevent them from speaking out. In our case, it is entirely fictional, but I hope it speaks to broader truths in a world where the control of information and ‘the narrative’ is one of the key societal battlegrounds of our times. My aim was to try to make a sophisticated, intelligent film that is tense, entertaining, and engaging.”
Call us intrigued!
We will have to wait and see how Relay plays out when it opens on August 22nd. Watch this space for our review!
