Everything you need to know about layer cake movie 2005. A lot of movie goers just want more movies like their favorites. Layer cake its fast paced gripping screenplay that enfolds in each phase as it ages on screen with witty humor and complex yet amusing characters blends in perfectly creating a brilliant gangsta rap environment that is although palpable but still even drug dealers dont work weekends. English superstar daniel craig of the james bond fame began his career in acting onstage. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. Based upon jj connellys london crime novel, layer cake is about a successful cocaine dealer daniel craig who has earned a res. Jason statham gives a status update on the sequel to 2004 crime thriller layer cake, in which hell be replacing original star daniel craig.
As its title suggests, layer cake has a notably vertical architecture. Theres a good reason layer cake feels like a guy ritchie movie. Find out where layer cake is streaming, if layer cake is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Dragan snipes the sniper before he takes his shot at the tourist, which producer and director matthew vaughns commentary states makes for a better scene. Layer cake 2004 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses. Top 10 movie portrayals of real life gangsters duration. If youre a fan of characterdriven movies like snatch and lock stock, but with a darker edge, layer cake is your movie.
Theres considerable drug use, including cocaine, and a central part of the plot is a. The netflix sequel series to the daniel craig and matthew vaughn gangster movie layer cake is slated to begin filming next month. Snatch and the myriad pretenders to their throne, and in the process proved himself a more sensitive, intelligent director than ritchie ever was. That constant tinkletinkle should be a warning that what starts off as a medical drama with a healthy nasty streak wont be able to resist slapping a bandage on all the badness in the end. Layer cake is the latest in the recent cluster of british gangstercaper films begun by guy ritchies lock, stock and two smoking barrels. For several reasons, he is not eligible to be the earl of oxford and mortimer one of which being the fact that the line has been discontinued and replaced by the earl of oxford and asquith. The result is movies like layer cake, legend, and when you do it right, a solid guy ritchie flick like lock stock and two smoking barrels. A west london drug dealer is caught in a high stakes game of life and death when hes duped into trying to sell one million hits of ecstasy stolen from a vic. A layer cake us english or sandwich cake uk english, also called a sandwich in uk english, is a cake consisting of multiple stacked sheets of cake, held together by frosting or another type of filling, such as jam or other preserves. Cake is a 2014 american drama film directed by daniel barnz, written by patrick tobin, and starring jennifer aniston, adriana barraza, felicity huffman, william h. Layer cake is the first film from director matthew vaughn, who produced the guy ritchie crime pictures snatch and lock, stock and two smoking barrels. Netflixs layer cake sequel series sets filming start date. The movies soundtrack is as energetic and stylish as one would expect from a production of this sort, with an enjoyable mix of different styles, moods, and favorites both old and new. British friends of mine originally referred me to the movie, and its now one of my favorites.
The voice explaining everything to us belongs to daniel craig, who plays the competent and conservative middleman in a wellrun london cocaine. If you read this interview of the director, matthew vaughan, you would know that they gave a name to this anonymous character, for the movie. Derailing a drug dealers retirement the new york times. The critical consensus states that it is a stylized, electric british crime thriller. Parents need to know that layer cake is a 2004 british actioncrime movie in which daniel craig plays a cocaine distributor caught in a web of deceit involving kidnapping and stolen drugs. Layer cake internet movie firearms database guns in. Layer cake star cast, actor, actress and director name. Colm meaney in layer cake 2004 claudia schiffer and matthew vaughn at an event for. Like scorseses casino and goodfellas, the british crime movie layer cake opens with a narration describing a criminal world made in heaven. Also like casino and goodfellas, it is about an inexorable decline toward the torments of hell. Its director is the producer of snatch and lock, stock and two smoking barrels and it is clear here that he is trying to move away from flashy ritchie editing and effects as much as possible, making his own film just a bit too barren in order to.
With layer cake, producer vaughn joins alist of film. The movie was directed by matthew vaughn, who produced lock, stock and two smoking. Marking the directorial debut of lock, stock and two smoking barrels producer matthew vaughn, this decent british crime flick stars daniel. No good can ultimately come from a movie that is as obsessed with wind chimes as cake. Matthew allard robert vaughn born 7 march 1971 is an english film producer, director, and screenwriter. The movie, is based on a book of the same name layer cake, and the protagonist character played by daniel craig has no name there too. Complicating matters are two million pounds worth of grade a ecstasy, a brutal serbian gang, and a whole series of double crossings. The director of layer cake is matthew vaughn, the producer of the aforementioned titles. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing layer cake near you. So it probably shouldnt come as much of a surprise that vaughn directs like a poor mans guy ritchie, or that the film takes audiences on a notsomagical journey back to when seemingly every british thriller worshipped at. The trailers to layer cake left me with mixed feelings. Now, it is my opinion that layer cake could have perhaps used some of the latter to spice things up. Producer and director matthew vaughn is a descendant of edward harley, 3rd earl of oxford and mortimer.
A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement. He has produced films including lock, stock and two smoking barrels 1998 and snatch 2000, and directed layer cake 2004, stardust 2007, kickass 2010, xmen. See the full list of layer cake cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Now, though, hes switched careers, making his directorial debut with layer cake, a cracking londonset crime movie starring daniel craig. He went on to feature in films and tv series and eventually garnered international fame and stardom with some of the most critically acclaimed and top grossing films. Layer cake 2004 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Matthew vaughn is an english film producer and director. During world war ii, the germans would occupy the belgian firearms factories and continued to produce this gun, called the pistole 640b whereas the b meant belgische, belgian with waffenamt stamps. Layer cake 2 will shoot in 2016 with jason statham b.
Layer cake cast layer cake star cast is very amazing but however future will tell whether this cast list is good enough to make this movie a super hit or not. An unnamed midlevel cocaine dealer daniel craig in london makes plans to step away from the criminal life. Matthew vaughn, the director and coproducer of layer cake, held the producing credit for lock and ritchies. Layer cake cast and crew cast photos and info fandango. This movie was originally going to play the scene out in the same way, but sony pictures felt uncomfortable with killing the american and asked for the scene to be changed. He is known for producing such films as lock, stock and two smoking barrels 1998 and snatch 2000 and for directing the crime thriller, layer cake 2004, the fantasy epic, stardust 2007, the superhero comedy, kickass 2010, and the superhero film, x. Before he can cut ties, the dealers supplier jimmy price kenneth cranham draws him into a complicated pair of jobs involving kidnapping the teenage daughter of a rival gangster michael gambon and brokering the purchase of a large shipment of ecstasy pills from a dealer known as. Netflixs layer cake sequel series may start filming in march.
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