First Trailer for F. Gary Gray’s Plane Heist Movie ‘Lift’ with Kevin Hart
by Alex Billington
November 5, 2023
Source: YouTube
“It’s impossible.” “It just hasn’t been done before.” Can they pull it off? Netflix has revealed the first trailer for a new heist action comedy called Lift, coming to Netflix to watch in January 2024 early next year. This trailer just debuted during a big NFL game, which means Netflix is trying to make this one of their next big hits. Does it really have that potential? An international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane while flying at 40,000 feet. It’s from the same director as The Italian Job remake and Law Abiding Citizen, F. Gary Gray, so it might actually be pretty cool to see them pull this off. Kevin Hart stars as Cyrus, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Viveik Kalra, Yun Jee Kim, Burn Gorman, Paul Anderson, as well as Jean Reno and Sam Worthington. This heist seems like a pretty big job – involving a whole other plane swooping in, and a safe to crack, and lots of other heist movie tropes. It looks like it could be entertaining.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for F. Gary Gray’s Lift, direct from Netflix’s YouTube:
A master thief (Kevin Hart) is wooed by his ex-girlfriend and the FBI to pull off an impossible heist with his international crew onboard a 777 passenger flight from London to Zurich. Lift is directed by American filmmaker F. Gary Gray, director of the films Friday, Set It Off, The Negotiator, A Man Apart, The Italian Job, Be Cool, Law Abiding Citizen, Straight Outta Compton, The Fate of the Furious, and Men in Black: International previously, plus music videos and other shorts. The screenplay is written by Daniel Kunka (12 Rounds). Produced by Kevin Hart & Bryan Smiley for Hartbeat; Simon Kinberg & Audrey Chon for Kinberg Genre Films; Matt Reeves & Adam Kassan for 6th & Idaho Motion Picture Company. Netflix will release F. Gary Gray’s Lift movie streaming on Netflix starting January 12th, 2024 early next year. Want to watch?
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