Jennifer Garner Peppermint Movie World Premiere Interview (2019)

Watch Peppermint Movie World Premiere Interview With Jennifer Garner.

Riley North was living a happy and uneventful suburban life with her husband

Chris and 10 year-old-daughter Carly. While they may have been struggling to make ends meet their lives were filled with laughter and love. Baited by the idea of a quick money- grab that could ease their financial burden, Riley’s husband Chris is pulled into a potential “business” opportunity involving local members of a powerful drug cartel. Questioning the morality of his prospective actions, Chris ultimately backs out, but this brief flirtation with the criminal underworld leads to a deadly retaliation that alters the course of their
lives forever.

After waking in the hospital to the horrific reality that her family is gone, Riley works with the LAPD to positively identify the shooters. A trial takes place, and despite her eyewitness testimony, the charges are dropped. The killers walk, the result of a collaboration between dirty cops and corrupt judges under the thumb of the cash-rich drug cartel. In a moment, Riley’s former life falls away and she is consumed with the need to do what the “justice’ system wouldn’t do… she sets out to transform herself from ordinary citizen to vigilante.
Channeling her anger into personal motivation, she spends years in hiding honing mind, body and spirit to become an unstoppable force, eluding the underworld, the LAPD and the FBI, as she systematically delivers her own personal brand of justice.
STXfilms, Lakeshore Entertainment and Huayi Brothers Pictures present a

Lakeshore Entertainment Production and an STXfilms Production.

Peppermint stars Jennifer Garner (Love, Simon, Dallas Buyers Club, Alias), John Ortiz (Silver Linings Playbook, Fast & Furious 6), John Gallagher, Jr. (10 Cloverfield Lane, Short Term 12, The Belko Experiment), Juan Pablo Raba (Narcos, The 33, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Annie Ilonzeh (American Horror Story, Empire, All Eyez on Me), Jeff Hephner (Interstellar, Chicago Med), Pell James (Only the Brave, The Lincoln Lawyer), and Cliff
‘Method Man’ Smith (Keanu).

The film is directed by Pierre Morel (Taken, The Gunman) and written by Chad St. John (London Has Fallen). Peppermint is produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright and Eric Reid. . Director of Photography is David Lazenberg, Production Designer is Ramsey Avery, the Editor is Frédéric Thoraval, the Costume Designer is Lindsay
Ann McKay, and Music is by Simon Franglen.

THE JOURNEY OF RILEY NORTH
Upon their first reading of a new-to-marketplace original screenplay entitled Peppermint, producers Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi of Lakeshore Entertainment were captivated by the journey of one woman’s dramatic transformation from ordinary woman to justice-seeking vigilante. Recognizing the notable absence of engaging films with a strong female protagonist at the center, they knew they had to act fast. After receiving the script on a Thursday, they made an offer on Friday and the project was theirs
by Monday.
“We knew we had to close the deal as quickly as possible so I called the head of the agency on a Saturday, which I don’t often do, and pushed to close the deal Saturday night,” recalls producer Gary Lucchesi. “By Monday morning three or four other studios wanted it, but thankfully we recognized it was prescient that we act aggressively.”
The screenplay, written by Chad St. John (London Has Fallen), was especially appealing because of the filmmaker attached. Accomplished action director Pierre Morel, who launched the Taken franchise and single-handedly re-defined the perception of the action hero, was attached to direct. “I was looking for a female-driven action movie and found the idea compelling,” says Morel. “For me, it’s all about the emotional journey, there’s no reason for the action if there’s no emotional motivation behind it.”

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