Salma Hayek Shows Off Her Guns in Action-Packed 'Everly' Trailer

If you're someone who likes to watch extremely hot women kick a lot of ass and fire big guns, then Everly is what you've been waiting for. Directed by Joe Lynch, this balls to the wall action flick stars Salma Hayek as a prostitute who turns on her boyfriend, a yakuza boss, and naturally becomes a target for assassination. Trapped in her apartment, she must overcome wave after wave of hired killers using every weapon at her disposal.

Remember when this was going to star Kate Hudson? That might've been cool but Hudson can't bring it like Hayek can.

So it's kind of like The Raid only much sexier. Everly hits VOD on January 23rd and goes into theaters February 27th. Check out the new trailer below!


EVERLY - Trailer / Bande-Annonce [VO|HD1080p] by Team Lyricis

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Salma Hayek goes on a Rampage in New Trailer for 'Everly'

Salma Hayek's combination of stunning beauty and toughness has been her calling card for a lot of years now, so seeing her as the badass lead in a action flick like Everly isn't much of a stretch. She's not like some other actors who turn to this kind of film to revitalize their careers; this is exactly what she's good at, and the latest trailer shows just good she is at playing an unstoppable killing machine.

Directed by Joe Lynch (Knights of Badassdom), the film has Hayek as the title character; a desperate woman who must fend off wave after wave of assassins sent by her ex, who happens to be a dangerous yakuza boss. The catch to this one is that it basically takes place in one location, so as long as it doesn't get tiresome watching her lay waste to hordes of enemies this should be pretty amazing in a way similar to The Raid. 

Everly is expected to open in 2015 but for now there's no release date.

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Robert De Niro Drives 'Bus 757'; John C. Reilly Joins 'Tale of Tales'; Adrien Brody is the 'Emperor'

* Robert De Niro has added another potentially junky film to his slate, joining the boringly-titled Bus 757. Directed by Scott Mann (The Tournament), the story follows "a casino card dealer who puts together a crew to simultaneously rob a bank and hijack a bus full of hostages to use as collateral. De Niro will play “The Pope,” a casino owner with illegitimate business practices whose assets are the targets of the heist." This has "Wal-Mart $5 bin" written all over it, but we'll see. [Deadline]

* The always reliable John C. Reilly and Toby Jones (Capote) have joined Tale of Tales, the latest film from Gomorrah director, Matteo Garrone.  This is shaping up to be a major project with Oscar winner Alexandre Desplat providing the score and a four month shoot planned. Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel,  Alba Rohrwacher will star in the film based loosely on Giambattista Basile's Tale of Tales, and is described as "a giant fresco of the baroque period, told through stories of three sovereigns ruling under different dynasties." [Cineuropa]

* We haven't seen anything from director Lee Tamahori since 2011's The Devil's Double, but now he's back and set to helm Emperor with Adrien Brody starring. He'll play Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, "trying to hold together a fragmented Empire, in a 16th century world of wealth, debauchery, violent retaliations, sex, manipulation and treason."  The Devil's Double scribe Michael Thomas III penned the first draft while Jeffrey Hatcher (The Duchess) giving it a rewrite.  [Deadline]

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Jeremy Irvine Climbs 'Stonewall'; Brie Larson Enters 'Room'; Salma Hayek Joins 'Sausage Party'

* Roland Emmerich has decided on his first post-Independence Day 2 film, and the only explosions in it will be the booming sounds of activism in the streets. Emmerich has been developing a gay rights drama titled Stonewall, based on the famous 1969 police raid at gay bar the Stonewall Inn. As the patrons fought back against the cops, it became one of the key moments in the gay rights movement. And starring in the film will be Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), starring as a young man who experiences his political awakening during the riots. Production on the Jon Robin Baitz-scripted film will begin soon. [Deadline]

* After a sterling 2013, Brie Larson has signed on to a number of projects to keep busy this year. She's already lined up Judd Apatow's next film, Trainwreck, and an adaptation of Matthew Quick's The Good Luck of Right Now. And now she's agreed to star in Room, directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Frank) and based on Emma Donoghue's best-selling novel which was partially taken from a true story. Larson plays Ma, "a woman kidnapped as a teenager who has been held captive for years in a tiny room where she lives with her 5-year-old son Jack. To the boy, Room is the only home he’s ever known." Guh, sounds creepy. Larson, who won't return for 22 Jump Street, will be seen next in The Gambler opposite Mark Wahlberg. [Deadline]

* So it won't be a total Sausage Party for the animated R-rated comedy, which features the voices of Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, James Franco, David Krumholtz, Nick Kroll, and Edward Norton. Kristen Wiig is already on board, and now there's another shot of estrogen with the addition of Salma Hayek. Penned by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the film takes place in a supermarket and follows a sausage that falls out of his shopping cart and embarks on a quest to learn the truth about his existence. Hayek will, sadly, voice a taco named Teresa.

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Salma Hayek Leads 'The Septembers of Shiraz'; Christoph Waltz Joins 'Tulip Fever'

* With news emerging over the weekend that Salma Hayek's single-room action flick Everly has been picked up for U.S. distribution, the actress is jumping ahead into her next project. She will join the criminally underused Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) in The Septembers of Shiraz. Promisingly, the adaptation of Dalia Sofer's Iran-set novel will be directed by Wayne Blair (The Sapphires), with Gerard Butler producing. Taking place during the 1981 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the story centers on a Jewish family "as they try to come together and escape the deadly tyranny. Hayek will play the mother while Aghdashloo is the family’s housekeeper, whose son used to work for the gem dealer but is not part of the Revolutionary Guard." Salma Hayek playing a Jewish woman sounds a little sketchy, but we'll see how it all turns out.

* Never one to go too long without a new film under his belt, Christoph Waltz has agreed to join Alicia Vikander and Dane DeHaan in Tulip Fever, the 17th-century story about an illicit affair between a painter and the wife of a wealthy merchant during a time when tulipmania had struck Amsterdam.  Justin Chadwick (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) is directing based on Deborah Moggach's novel. Production should begin in April, marking the end of a long road which saw Jude Law and Matthias Schoenaerts circling roles before they both dropped out. [THR]

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First Look at Salma Hayek in Assassin Flick 'Everly'

Salma Hayek is a badass. We already know this, right? Which is why she made the perfect choice to star in Everly, an action film that has been on the radars of many a cinephile since it was announced more than two years ago, back when it looked very different. At the time it was Kate Hudson in the title role, and while I have no doubts she would have brought something different to the role, few can make kicking butt look as good as Hayek does.

The first image of Hayek in Everly has been released, and you probably don't want to be on the business end of that gun she's holding. Directed by Joe Lynch (Knights of Badassdom) and based on Yale Hannon's Black List-approved script, the film follows a hard luck woman who must fight off wave after wave of Japanese assassins sent by her ex, a dangerous mob boss. The majority of the action takes place in her apartment so it'll be interesting to see how Lynch mixes things up.

Everly should hit theaters some time in 2014, and Hayek is excited for everybody to see it...

Hayek: "You’ve never seen me like this before. And I love it. Because you really see a transformation in this character that’s noticeable and shocking. I become a badass."

See? Told you she was a badass.  [USA Today]

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Lake Bell Joins 'The Coup'; Brenton Thwaites in 'Gods of Egypt'; Salma Hayek Learns "Hot to Make Love"

* The multi-talented Lake Bell (In a World...) is moving back in front of the camera for The Coup, joining Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan in the thriller directed by John Erick Dowdle. Co-written by Dowdle and his brother Drew, the film centers on an American family living in Southeast Asia who must flee a dangerous rebel leader when a violent coup erupts. Bell will play "Annie Dwyer, a woman who is loved by everyone and has a seemingly perfect family life, but wonders sometimes if she should be happier than she is." [THR]

* Fast-rising star Brenton Thwaites, who has the Disney adaptation Maleficent and the lead role in The Giver coming up, has added another major project. He'll join Alex Proyas' Gods of Egypt, which stars Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Geoffrey Rush. Thwaites will play a human thief who teams up with the god Osiris to get revenge on Set, who murdered his own brother and cursed the land. [Deadline]

* Salma Hayek has won the lead role in How to Make Love Like an Englishman, a sexually-charged romantic comedy that stars the suddenly ubiquitous Pierce Brosnan and Jessica Alba. Directed by Tom Vaughn, the story has Brosnan as a hedonistic Cambridge University professor who falls for the perfect woman played by Hayek. Unfortunately it happens after he's already impregnated her grad student stepsister, played by Alba. [Deadline]

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It'll be Salma Hayek, not Kate Hudson, battling waves of assassins in 'Everly'

More than a year ago it was looking like Kate Hudson would make an interesting career swerve by taking on the lead role in Everly, a non-stop action film from The Knights of Badassdom director, Joe Lynch. The script by Yale Hannon turned up on the Black List and has been touted for its absurd levels of violence, making this one of the more interesting films on the horizon. But the film vanished from radars, and now that it has resurfaced Hudson is apparently out, replaced by Salma Hayek.

The conceit of the story is pretty clever, following a hard luck woman who must fend off wave after wave of assassins sent by her ex-lover, a dangerous mob boss. While that sounds like it has some cool The Raid: Redemption-style potential, the camera never leaves the apartment where Everly is being attacked, making it a slightly expanded "single-set" brawler with a female heroine. Yes, this sounds awesome, although personally I wish Hudson had stuck around.

Hayek will be seen this summer in Grown Ups 2, which is around the same time Everly will begin filming in Serbia.[Deadline]

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