Vince Vaughn Takes On Very Different Role From What We’re Used To

Vince Vaughn is typically known as the funny guy who has made us laugh in legendary movies like Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Old School and Wedding Crashers. He's taken the odd serious role over the course of his career, but nothing as brutish or dark as his next film.

He plays Bradley, a former boxer turned drug runner, in the upcoming thriller Brawl in Cell Block 99. Bradley has just been fired from his mechanic job and is grappling with the breakdown of his relationship with his wife, played by Jennifer Carpenter (The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Dexter).

The synopsis is enough to get many into the cinema; however, the trailer shows just how intense Vaughn's latest role is going to be.

Credit: XYZ Films

His new look is a big change to the guy we're used to, but watching him punch a car into oblivion in two minutes certainly leaves an impression.

As a last-ditch effort to save his life, Bradley agrees to working with an old mate to courier drugs from point A to point B. But he ends up in a firefight with the police and lands himself in jail - which doesn't appear to be a good fit for him.

People on social media are eager to see the darker side to Vaughn's acting.

ScreenDaily has listed the film as one of the ones to keep an eye out for at the 74^th Venice International Film Festival.

The film will be directed by S. Craig Zahler, who has been in charge of productions such as Bone Tomahawk, a horror-tinged Western with its fair share of cannibalism. In fact, Vaughn has already signed on for another movie with Zahler, titled Dragged Across Concrete, which will also star Mel Gibson.

Gibson and Vaughn previously worked alongside each other in the award winning war film Hacksaw Ridge - another serious role for Vaughn that broke the mould of his typical character type.

However, Vaughn has seesawed between comedic and serious roles for his entire career. He played the legendary villain Norman Bates in a 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the unhinged Rick Barnes in Domestic Disturbance.

Brawl in Cell Block 99 will get a limited released on 6 October this year and will be available on-demand the following week.

Sources: ScreenDaily, IMBD

Featured Image Credit: XYZ Films

Topics: new film

Stewart Perrie

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