Michael Keaton’s aged assassin gets diagnosed with dementia and decides to redeem himself by helping out his estranged son in the trailer of Knox Goes Away, also starring Al Pacino and James Marsden.
Dropped by One Media on Thursday, the two-minute-31-second-long trailer shows Keaton’s Knox, an aged killer, with a rare form of dementia and only a few weeks at best to live. But undaunted by his illness, the hitman decides to save his estranged son, played by Marsden, from the police when the latter shows up unexpectedly at his doorstep after killing the man who hurt his daughter. The situation, however, darkens when the police closes in on Knox, creating a division between him and his son.
Directed by Keaton himself, Knox Goes Away is written by Gregory Poirier, who is known for his screenplay in films like the historical drama Rosewood (1997) and the Jackie Chan-starrer The Spy Next Door (2010).
Marcia Gay Hayden also stars in the film, which is produced by Nick Gordon, Trevor Matthews, Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta under the banner of FilmNation Entertainment, Brookstreet Pictures and Sugar 23.
Knox Goes Away premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September last year and is set to release in theatres worldwide on March 15.
After reprising his role as Batman in Ezra Miller’s The Flash, Keaton will next star alongside Winona Ryder in Tim Burton’s horror comedy movie Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a sequel to the 1988 film, slated to release on September 6.
