N'Duka, Amanda (April 25, 2019). "Angela Bassett Joins Lena Headey & Karen Gillan In 'Gunpowder Milkshake' ". Deadline Hollywood. Bloody Milkshake (Canal+) Carla Gugino: "Je ne veux plus entendre: Tu as tel âge, tu peux jouer une grand-mère!" ". Télé 7 Jours. January 22, 2022. On December 16, 2019, it was announced that Frank Ilfman was hired to compose the film's score. [18] The score album was released on July 14, 2021, by Milan Records. [19] Release [ edit ] Netflix and theatrical [ edit ] In February 2020, STXfilms acquired distribution rights to the film in the United States. [20] In April 2021, Netflix bought the American distribution rights from STXfilms. [21] Gunpowder Milkshake was released on Netflix in the United States, Canada, and the Nordic countries on July 14, 2021. [22] In the United States, it also received a simultaneous limited theatrical release. It was the most watched film of the week in the country upon its release, according to Nielsen. [23]

Nevertheless, there are some thrills to Gunpowder Milkshake for those who are willing to ignore the tedium. A fight in a dentist’s office, with a gun and a scalpel taped to Sam’s hands as she whirls, spins, and takes on three baddies, takes its time capturing Gillan’s body, from her awkwardly efficient flailing to her split-second problem-solving. A car chase where Emily sits on Sam’s lap and helps her drive around a parking garage, zooming and drifting and reversing away from two cars of pursuers, is well-paced. And although the major mid-film fight scene suffers from such jarring editing that even Michael Bay might say, “Hey, guys, cool it,” the second hour of Gunpowder Milkshake absolutely improves when Headey, Gugino, Bassett, and Yeoh have more screen time. Their screen presences are so unique, and their comedic timing is so good (Yeoh’s droll “It’s a tooth” when she pulls something out of her hair) that they somewhat balance the film’s other disappointing elements. McNary, Dave (June 12, 2019). "Film News Roundup: Gravitas Buys Seann William Scott Drama Already Gone". Variety . Retrieved 18 January 2023. Gunpowder Milkshake uses voiceover narration to introduce Sam (Gillan), an assassin who works for the nebulously powerful, all-male organization the Firm. “They’ve been running things for a long, long time,” Sam says, and she and her handler Nathan (Paul Giamatti) have been killing people for them for 15 years, since her mother Scarlet (Headey), also an assassin for the Firm, left her behind. Their rain-soaked, purple-lit parting took place at a diner Sam still frequents for its milkshakes after she murders her latest target, sews up her injuries, and further cultivates her terrifying reputation. But after a job goes wrong one night and she kills someone unexpected, her life begins to unravel.Kit, Borys (May 10, 2019). "Michelle Yeoh Joins Karen Gillan in Assassin Thriller 'Gunpowder Milkshake' ". The Hollywood Reporter. Fifteen years later, Sam works as an assassin for Nathan, the human resources head for the same firm Scarlet worked for. Nathan gives Sam a new job, killing a man who stole money from The Firm and returning the money. Sam goes to a weapons armory disguised as a library to exchange her weapons for new ones. There, she meets Anna May, Madeleine, and Florence - three former accomplices of Scarlet. They consider killing her for showing up unannounced, but change their minds when they learn her identity. They provide her with clean weapons for the job. MPEG-H HEVC Video 47985 kbps 2160p / 24 fps / 16:9 / Main 10 @ Level 5.1 @ High / 4:2:0 / 10 bits / 1000nits / HDR10 / BT.2020

Christopher Marc (February 11, 2019). "EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-Nominee Viggo Mortensen Offered Role In 'Gunpowder Milkshake' – Plus Character Breakdowns/Plot Details". HN Entertainment. Hybrid Network LLC . Retrieved August 14, 2021. Fleming, Mike Jr. (April 23, 2018). "Studiocanal, Picture Co Land 'Gunpowder Milkshake'; Next Pic For 'Big Bad Wolves' Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado". Deadline Hollywood. The film's production was announced at the American Film Market in 2018. Casting announcements were made throughout 2019, starting with Gillan in January, and principal photography took place from June to August 2019 in Berlin. It is a co-production between The Picture Company, Babelsberg Studio and StudioCanal's German branch with the participation of French television channels Canal+ and Ciné+.

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The feminism- My problem here isn't that the film is feminist, it is that it thinks its audience is so stupid that it needs to club us over the head with it. All of the good guys are girls and all of the bad guys are men. I think the best example of the heavy-handedness of this is the villains motive. Throughout the movie we know he's mad because the main character, Sam, killed his son. This is already an understandable villain motive. It doesn't need any more context really. But the movie adds the context that the villain feels like an alien among his wife and daughters and his son was the only one he could relate to because of their shared manliness. So now the villain is sexist, but it's just shoe-horned in. It's not built up at all, he just goes on a sexist rant about his annoying wife and daughters randomly. All the gunmen are killed except for Virgil, Jim McAlister's nephew, who kills Madeleine and kidnaps Emily. Virgil calls Sam, who offers to turn herself in at the diner in exchange for Emily's freedom. Sam arrives to meet Jim McAlister who explains that his late son had four older sisters that Jim could not relate to as he does not understand women. Jim intends to torture Sam and make Emily watch, but Scarlet, Anna May, and Florence arrive with guns to free them. Sam takes Emily and leaves the diner before the three women kill Jim and all his henchmen. Roeper, Richard (2021-07-13). " 'Gunpowder Milkshake': Great cast has a blast in Netflix's female-centric shoot-'em-up". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved 2021-07-19. Dolby TrueHD/Atmos Audio German 3995 kbps 7.1 / 48 kHz / 3355 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps) If everyone is super cool, and super deadly, and super nonchalant, then you need to put even more work into making the characters stand apart. They'll need specific quirks, competing goals, faults and obsessions, some key nub of characterization even if its superficial (a guy with one eye he's insecure about it, etc.). With Gunpowder Milkshake, there's nothing to work with. The screenwriters made this so much harder on themselves. I guess we're merely supposed to be won over by the casting and the imagery of these bad ladies holding powerful weaponry. The protagonist is boring. She is the familiar hired killer who grows an inconvenient conscience. That's an acceptable starting point but the moral growth is hindered when her young charge, the little girl that forces her paradigm shift, wants to be her apprentice to learn to kill people. The fraught mother/daughter relationship resorts to a lot of "I didn't want this life for you,""It's the only life I've known" roundabout conversations, and neither furthers our understanding of either side.

Gunpowder Milkshake' Completes its Stellar Cast with 'Vikings' Star Ivan Kaye". Ivan Kaye Source. May 23, 2019 . Retrieved August 28, 2019.Gunpowder Milkshake was released in France digitally on October 21, 2021, and on Blu-ray, and DVD on November 3 by StudioCanal with distribution handled by Universal Pictures Vidéo France. [28] On television, the film premiered on Canal+ on January 22, 2022, and was released simultaneously on streaming on MyCanal. [29] Kit, Borys (January 8, 2019). "Karen Gillan to Star in Assassin Action Movie 'Gunpowder Milkshake' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Frank Ilfman to Score Navot Papushado's 'Gunpowder Milkshake' ". Film Music Reporter. December 16, 2019. MPEG-H HEVC Video 12033 kbps (20.05%) 1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / Main 10 @ Level 5.1 @ High / 4:2:0 / 10 bits / 1000nits / Dolby Vision FEL / BT.2020