Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is working as a Las Vegas bodyguard for hire, mainly due to his lethal professional skills, but also because of a slight gambling problem he has. Unfortunately for Wild, he allows business to get mixed up with his personal life, as he chooses to help a friend of his that gets savagely beaten by a Vegas thug. After extracting a bloody revenge on the thug, Wild finds his simple little existence challenged by an entire crime family that seem hell-bent on sending him to a shallow grave in the desert. Wild knows that one way or another, he's not gonna be in Vegas by the morning.
'Wild Card' was directed by Simon West ('Con Air', 'The Expendables 2'). The screenplay was written by two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter William Goldman ('Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', 'All the President's Men') based on the 1986 film 'Heat' (for which Goldman wrote the screenplay), which itself was an adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same name, written by Goldman. The film is set to open in Belgium on 14th January 2015, before opening in in the US on 30th January.
Starring: Jason Statham, Michael Angarano, Dominik García-Lorido, Hope Davis, Milo Ventimiglia, Max Casella, Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander, Sofia Vergara, Anne Heche, François Vincentelli, Chris Browning, Matthew Willig, Davenia McFadden, Michael Papajohn, Jean Claude Leuyer, Greice Santo, Freddie Poole, Nick Epper, Lara Grice