The quad poster for the upcoming drama “Bronson,” has been released.
The notorious life of the UK’s “most violent prisoner” serves as the subject of Pusher Trilogy director Nicolas Winding Refn’s brutal biopic.
Born Michael Peterson but later renamed by his fight promoter, Charles Bronson’s sole ambition in life was to become famous. Surmising that the fastest means of accomplishing his goal with such limited opportunities was to cultivate a stylized persona as a hardened criminal, the ambitious do-badder embraced a desperate existence of extreme savagery.
But who is the real man behind the warped persona? Seeing as how twenty-eight of Bronson’s thirty-four years behind bars were spent in solitary confinement, that’s a difficult question to answer. The terror of the legend comes to vivid life, however, as director Refn explores the twisted alternate reality created by Bronson, and highlights precisely how the controversial criminal staged himself within that anarchistic world.
“Bronson” had its premiere at
Sundance Film Festival in January and after that the movie has been shown at
European Film Market (Germany),
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival and at
Glasgow Film Festival.
The movie directed by Nicolas Winding Refn from the script by
Brock Norman Brock also stars
Kelly Adams, Amanda Burton, William Darke, Matt King, Hugh Ross, Matt Legg and
Brendan McCoy…
“Bronson” opens UK theaters on March 13, 2009.
