Streaming giant Netflix has released the action-packed trailer for Jason Momoa’s upcoming revenge thriller Sweet Girl. The three-minute video presents the movie’s entire plot and puts Momoa’s Ray Cooper up against a big pharmaceutical company, and what appear to be its hired goons.
The official synopsis of Sweet Girl confirms that Momoa’s Ray Cooper is a devastated husband who vows to go up against said greedy pharma company, which is responsible for his wife’s death. The company in question will be seen removing a drug from the market that could have saved her life as she suffered from cancer. It seems like Cooper will now go to any extent in his fight for justice and revenge, but the path will obviously not be an easy one.
The Sweet Girl trailer puts Momoa, who is currently shooting Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, in a conundrum as his search for the truth puts his own daughter, played by Dora and the Lost City of Gold actor Isabela Merced, in danger. She then wants to join him on his life-threatening mission, which is his way of protecting the “only family he has left.” In the Sweet Girl trailer, it seems like the pharma company sends out people to stop the two from discovering the dark truth behind the company, with Cooper even being attacked multiple times. But the father-daughter duo is determined to expose the company for its unethical practices, and in the process, the two uncover a conspiracy involving government figures.
Set to the iconic Guns N' Roses song “Sweet Child O' Mine,” the Sweet Girl trailer promises a lot of action and fight scenes, with Cooper even seen strangling another individual at one point. The pharma company will also go to any extent to stop him from revealing their dark underbelly, including pinning a murder on Cooper. This will then lead to a manhunt, which promises even more action in the film than the trailer has to offer.
Apart from Momoa and Merced, the film stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Amy Brenneman, Adria Arjona, Raza Jaffrey, Justin Bartha, Lex Scott Davis, and Michael Raymond-James. The film has been directed by Andrew Mendoza, who has previously worked with Momoa in projects like 2018’s Braven and the television series Frontier, which ran from 2016 to 2018.
Big Pharma is certainly an unexpected foe for Momoa, considering fans are used to seeing him battle Black Manta as Aquaman. Of course, pharmaceutical companies have been under scrutiny for some time now, so audiences probably won't have any trouble viewing them as a movie adversary.
Sweet Girl will premiere on Netflix on August 20, 2021.
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