What are you worth?
What happens when you take a dash of Love/Hate, a pinch of Game Of Thrones and throw in a sprinkling of Fight Club and the global economic crash?
Well, a really terrible-tasting cake probably and an even worse analogy for new Irish thriller, Traders.
Traders, written and directed by Rachael Moriarty & Peter Murphy, stars friend of JOE, Killian Scott (Love/Hate, Calvary, ’71) and John Bradley (Game of Thrones, Shameless), and is in cinemas now.
This new Irish film tells the story of Harry Fox (Scott), a young Dublin-based businessman who seems to have it all; the luxury apartment, the fancy car, the ridiculously-chiselled abs.
When the company he works for goes bust, however, it looks like he will lose everything.
Step forward Vernon Stynes (Bradley), a colleague offering a solution through his diabolical, all-or-nothing scheme based in the Deep Web, called Trading; two strangers empty their banks accounts, sell their assets, put their entire worth in cash into a green sports bag.
They travel to a remote location and fight to the death. Winner buries the loser and walks away twice as rich.
Great craic altogether.
Vernon believes trading is a no-brainer for anyone who wants to get rich quick. Can Harry resist the lure of a such a high risk gamble?
It’s dangerous, it’s illegal, but it could solve all his problems.
We caught up with the much more law-abiding Killian and John to find out who would win in a fight in real life, we see how well they know their Westeros and West Dublin geography, and watch out for the moment where things get pretty dark, pretty quickly.
Enjoy…
Here’s the Traders trailer to get you in the mood…
Clip via Element Pictures Distribution
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