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Daniel Schecther’s upcoming Life of Crime has an interesting connection to Quentin Tarantino’s vastly underrated film, Jackie Brown. While Jackie Brown was Tarantino ‘s take on author Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch, full of classic Tarantino dark humor and penchant for blaxploitation, Life of Crime is a more direct adaptation of Leonard’s The Switch. In Life of Crime, Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) and John Hawkes portray younger versions of the characters played by Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De Niro in Jackie Brown. There’s your interesting factoid of the day. However, Life of Crime is no take on Tarantino’s work, but something entirely itself that could potentially be a late summer hit.
The film stars Jennifer Aniston (We’re the Millers) as Mickey, the wife of a wealthy real estate developer (Tim Robbins). When Mickey is kidnapped by a couple of criminals (played by the aforementioned Bey and Hawkes), they demand a million dollar ransom from Mickey’s husband. Little do they know that he’d rather them keep Mickey hostage so he can spend the rest of his life with his mistress (played by Wedding Crashers‘ Isla Fisher).
Life of Crime promises a dark comedy full of plot twists and all types of shenanigans. If it’s anything like Jackie Brown or Get Shorty, another one of Leonard’s film adaptations, it’s definitely going to find success at the box office. The film received solid reviews from critics at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, so there’s just a matter of general audiences warming up to the film.
Life of Crime will be in theaters and VOD on August 29th.