Mel Gibson’s Flight Risk gets a new trailer

Flight Risk, the action thriller which marks Mel Gibson‘s first time in the director’s chair since Hacksaw Ridge comes out on January 24th, and marks star Mark Wahlberg’s first straight-on villain role since his breakout performance in 1996’s Fear. As you can see in the trailer above, Wahlberg’s sporting an unhinged new look, including a bald pate which, I suppose, is meant to downplay his usual movie star looks.

Directed by Mel Gibson and written by Jared Rosenberg, Flight Risk finds Wahlberg playing a pilot transporting an Air Marshall (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar, and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.

The January 24th release date should give Flight Risk a prime slot to pull in some big box-office, as it’s currently the only wide release movie on tap for that weekend. Home studio Lionsgate definitely needs a win, with only The Strangers: Chapter 1 and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever grossing over $30 million domestically.

Gibson’s next directorial outing could be the long-awaited Lethal Weapon 5. “I’m going to direct the fifth film in the Lethal Weapon series. You know, Richard Donner, who did the other four, sadly passed away. He was a good friend, and he kind of tasked me with carrying the flag home on that one,” Gibson said earlier this summer. “It’ll be an honor for me to do that. He [Richard Donner] had gotten a fair way into the screenplay, so we’ve used what was there, and we kept poking at it, working at it a little. I’m pretty happy with it, it’s good, I had a lot of fun doing it.“

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