Netflix has an intriguing new project coming up with the Velvelt Buzzsaw film where the tagline of “art being dangerous” definitely caught my attention. The film is set for a February 1st, 2019 release on Netflix from writer/director Dan Gilroy, which reunites him with Jake Gyllenhaal after their worked together a few years ago on Nightcrawler. Gilroy’s a bit hit or miss for me as a writer but I enjoyed his take on Kong: Skull Island and whereas Real Steel just fell very flat for me.
The cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen, and John Malkovich.
Check out the Netflix page.
Plot Concept: In the cutthroat world of fine-art trading and representation, up-and-coming agent Josephina (Zawe Ashton) stumbles across a secret weapon: hundreds of dazzling paintings left behind after an elderly tenant in her building dies. Ignoring the instructions the clandestine artist left to destroy his work, she promptly starts circulating the paintings, which soon attract the attention of the heavy hitters around her—including her boss Rhodora (Rene Russo), art critic (and Josephina’s sometime lover) Morf (Jake Gyllenhaal), and competing collectors, managers, and curators like Bryson (Billy Magnussen) and Gretchen (Toni Collette). Yet as the deceased artist’s portraits gain posthumous acclaim, they also awaken something imperceptible and sinister that threatens to punish those who have profited from his work.
