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Haywire (film)

Haywire
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Produced by Gregory Jacobs
Written by Lem Dobbs
Starring
Music by David Holmes
Cinematography Peter Andrews
Edited by Mary Ann Bernard
Production
company
Distributed by Relativity Media
Release date
  • November 6, 2011 (2011-11-06) (AFI Fest)
  • January 20, 2012 (2012-01-20) (United States)
Running time
93 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $23 million
Box office $33.4 million

Haywire is a 2011 American action thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, and Michael Douglas. Carano, a mixed martial arts fighter, performs her own stunts in the film. The score is by Northern Irish DJ and composer David Holmes.

Carano is cast as Mallory Kane, an operative who works for a company that handles sensitive "black operations" covertly so that the government can maintain plausible deniability, and who is targeted for assassination by a conspiracy that she is forced to unravel.

Former Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) goes to a diner in Upstate New York to meet Aaron (Channing Tatum). He tells her to get in his car, but she refuses and they fight. He pulls out a gun, but she disarms and pistol-whips him. Scott (Michael Angarano), a customer in the diner, intervenes and Mallory demands his car keys and that he get in the car. As they flee, she explains who she is and what has happened to her. The flashback sequences are intermixed with scenes of their flight.

Mallory tells Scott that she and Aaron work for a company that handles "operations". One week before, the firm's director (and Mallory's ex-boyfriend) Kenneth (Ewan McGregor) had attended a meeting in Washington, D.C. arranged by government agent Coblenz (Michael Douglas). Kenneth's firm was hired to rescue Jiang (Anthony Brandon Wong), who was allegedly being held hostage in an apartment in Barcelona. Also present at the meeting was Coblenz's Spanish contact, Rodrigo (Antonio Banderas).


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