When the dead won’t rest, the R.I.P.D. won’t quit
This reminds me of Hellboy and Men In Black combined,
Movie release
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Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds headline the
3D supernatural action-adventure R.I.P.D. as two cops dispatched by
the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect and serve the
living from an increasingly destructive array of souls who refuse to move
peacefully to the other side.
Veteran sheriff Roy Pulsifer
(Bridges) has spent his career with the legendary police force known as R.I.P.D.
tracking monstrous spirits who are cleverly disguised as ordinary people.
His mission? To arrest and bring to justice a special brand of criminals
trying to escape final judgment by hiding among the unsuspecting on Earth.
Once the wise-cracking Roy is
assigned former rising-star detective Nick Walker (Reynolds) as his junior
officer, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch
teamwork. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, two
of R.I.P.D.’s finest must miraculously restore the cosmic balance...or watch
the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls the very wrong way.
Starring alongside Bridges
and Reynolds in R.I.P.D. are KEVIN BACON (X-Men: First
Class) as Bobby Hayes, Nick’s partner before he’s taken out in the line of
duty; MARY-LOUISE PARKER (television’s Weeds) as Proctor, Nick and Roy’s
tough-as-nails bureau chief in the R.I.P.D.; and STEPHANIE SZOSTAK (Iron
Man 3) as Julia, Nick’swidow
Rounding out the cast of
supporting roles are legendary character actor JAMES HONG (Blade Runner)
as Nick’s very unexpected elderly avatar and supermodel MARISA MILLER
(television’s Gary Unmarried) as Roy’s very sexy one. Playing three
felons on the run from the R.I.P.D. are ROBERT KNEPPER (TV’s
Cult) as the pack rat Stanley Nawicki, MIKE O’MALLEY (TV’s Glee) as the
Boston Red Sox-obsessed Elliot and DEVIN RATRAY (Side Effects) as the
swaggering, Elvis-inspired Pulaski.
R.I.P.D. is directed by Robert Schwentke
(Red) and produced by Neal H. Moritz (Fast & Furious
series, I Am Legend), Mike Richardson (Hellboy, Hellboy
II: The Golden Army) and Michael Fottrell (Fast & Furious
series, Live Free or Die Hard).
R.I.P.D. is based on the Dark Horse comic
created by PETER M. LENKOV (television’s 24, Hawaii Five-0), and it is
from a story by DAVID DOBKIN (Wedding Crashers, The Change-Up) & PHIL HAY
& MATT MANFREDI (Clash of the Titans, upcoming Ride Along). The
film’s screenplay is by Hay & Manfredi.
Executive producers on
R.I.P.D. are ORI MARMUR (The Green Hornet), Reynolds, JONATHON KOMACK MARTIN
(The Change-Up), Dobkin, KEITH GOLDBERG (17 Again) and Lenkov.
“RIPD” opens August 21, 2013 in theaters nationwide is released and
distributed by United International Pictures through Solar Entertainment
Corporation.
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