It’s been nearly two years since the arrival of Avengers: Endgame, the film in which writers and directors Joe and Anthony Russo landed – generally rave reviews – the end of a story that she and countless others had spent, for the better part of a decade, countless hours of human creativity and gigantic, swirling cauldrons of money to tell. Either way, it was a peak achievement in your career, which is probably a little disturbing if, you know, you still wanted to have a career.
Now, after a brief, highly explicable hiatus, the Russos are back, with Apple TV + release the first teaser for their first movie since Endgame packaged, an adaptation of Nico Walker’s 2018 crime novel Cherry. But while many of the Russo-style features are seemingly absent from the short (strangely truncated) clip – with hardly a magic glove or Important Rock in sight – they do have one familiar face to hand. (And a slightly lesser known haircut.)
Yes, that’s Tom Holland as a young man who signed up for the US military, a career choice that will likely keep him in good health and stay put – wait, no, oops, we just took a look at the Wikipedia- summary of the book, and it certainly won’t. In any case, as always, it’s interesting to see Holland play against type (as he did last year with Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The TimeFrom the banter, it’s a bit difficult to pin down the tone of the movie, but we’ll likely see more as the movie’s release date gets closer to 2021.